🏈 Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper

🚀 Export the most added and dropped NFL fantasy players in seconds. See exactly who the Sleeper community is rushing to pick up or cut, with a live add/drop count behind every name.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 16 fields per record · Up to 200 trending players per run · Covers the full Sleeper NFL player pool (12,000+ profiles)

Fantasy football moves fast, and the waiver wire moves faster. This Actor reads the public Sleeper trending feed for NFL and tells you which players are heating up right now, ranked by how many fantasy managers added or dropped them inside your chosen time window. Every trending player is enriched with their full profile so you get a roster ready record instead of a bare player id.

Coverage. The Actor pulls the live trending add or drop list from Sleeper, then looks up each player in the complete Sleeper NFL profile map. That map carries over 12,000 players, so active starters, rookies, free agents and deep bench names all resolve to a real name, position, team and status.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Fantasy football managers and commissioners	Waiver wire and free agent pickup decisions
Fantasy content creators and analysts	Weekly trending add and drop articles and videos
Sports data and model builders	Feeding roster trend signals into projections
Discord and group chat bot makers	Auto posting hot adds to a league channel

📋 What the Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper does

• Reads the live Sleeper trending feed for NFL, either most added or most dropped.
• Ranks players by the number of add or drop transactions inside your lookback window.
• Fetches the full Sleeper NFL player profile map once per run and caches it in memory.
• Enriches every trending player with name, position, team, status, injury status, age, years of experience, jersey number and college.
• Returns one clean record per trending player, ready for analysis or automation.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
type	string	Which trend to pull. add for most added players, drop for most dropped. Default add.
lookback_hours	integer	Time window in hours used to rank the trend. Default 24, range 1 to 168.
limit	integer	How many trending players to request before enrichment. Default 25, range 1 to 200.
maxItems	integer	Free users limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users optional, up to 1,000,000.

{
    "type": "add",
    "lookback_hours": 24,
    "limit": 25
}

{
    "type": "drop",
    "lookback_hours": 48,
    "limit": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: injuryStatus is only present when Sleeper has flagged a player as injured. Healthy players return null for that field by design, which is the same behavior as the source feed.

📊 Output

🏷 Field	Type	Description
🆔 playerId	string	Sleeper player id.
🏈 fullName	string	Player full name.
🔤 firstName	string	First name.
🔤 lastName	string	Last name.
🎽 position	string	Roster position such as RB, WR, TE, QB.
🏟 team	string	NFL team abbreviation, null for free agents.
📋 status	string	Player status such as Active or Inactive.
🩺 injuryStatus	string	Injury tag such as Questionable, null when healthy.
🎂 age	number	Player age.
📅 yearsExp	number	Years of NFL experience.
🔢 number	number	Jersey number.
🎓 college	string	College attended.
🔁 trendType	string	Whether the row came from the add or drop feed.
📈 trendCount	number	Add or drop transaction count in the window.
⏱ lookbackHours	number	Lookback window used for the ranking.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp when the record was collected.
❌ error	string	Error message, null on success.

Real sample records from a live run:

{"playerId":"8800","fullName":"Malik Davis","firstName":"Malik","lastName":"Davis","position":"RB","team":"DAL","status":"Active","injuryStatus":null,"age":27,"yearsExp":4,"number":20,"college":"Florida","trendType":"add","trendCount":28296,"lookbackHours":24,"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T17:03:10.133Z","error":null}

{"playerId":"2078","fullName":"Odell Beckham","firstName":"Odell","lastName":"Beckham","position":"WR","team":"NYG","status":"Active","injuryStatus":null,"age":33,"yearsExp":12,"number":3,"college":"LSU","trendType":"add","trendCount":9009,"lookbackHours":24,"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T17:03:10.133Z","error":null}

{"playerId":"9479","fullName":"Darnell Washington","firstName":"Darnell","lastName":"Washington","position":"TE","team":"PIT","status":"Active","injuryStatus":null,"age":24,"yearsExp":3,"number":80,"college":"Georgia","trendType":"add","trendCount":7235,"lookbackHours":24,"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T17:03:10.133Z","error":null}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• One record per trending player, already enriched with the full profile.
• A real add or drop count behind every name, not just a ranking.
• Adjustable lookback window so you can catch same day spikes or week long trends.
• Pulls from the public Sleeper API, no login or fantasy account required.
• Clean field names that drop straight into a spreadsheet, notebook or bot.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Trend counts	Profile enrichment	Setup
This Actor	Yes, add and drop counts	Yes, name, position, team, injury, age	None, just run
Manual app checking	Visible but not exportable	Manual reading	Tedious
Raw Sleeper API call	Returns only id and count	None, ids only	You build the lookup

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper.
3. Pick add or drop, set your lookback window and limit.
4. Click Start and let the run finish.
5. Open the results and review or connect them to your tool of choice.

💼 Business use cases

Fantasy media and content

Need	How this helps
Weekly waiver wire articles	Pull the top adds with counts to anchor your list
Short form video scripts	Spot rising names before they trend everywhere

League management

Need	How this helps
Commissioner newsletters	Share the hottest pickups with your league
Trade talk prep	See who managers are cutting and why

Analytics and modeling

Need	How this helps
Roster trend features	Feed add and drop counts into projections
Ownership shift tracking	Compare windows to measure momentum

Community and bots

Need	How this helps
Discord pickup alerts	Post fresh adds to a channel automatically
Group chat digests	Summarize movers for your friends each morning

🔌 Automating Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper

Connect runs to the tools you already use with Apify integrations for Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub and Google Drive. Schedule a daily run and push the hottest adds straight into a sheet, a channel or your own database without writing glue code.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research. Study how fantasy managers react to injuries and depth chart changes.
• Personal. Win your home league by catching breakout players a day early.
• Non-profit. Power a free community newsletter for a charity fantasy event.
• Experimentation. Test whether trend counts predict next week production.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant

Paste your results into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Microsoft Copilot and ask for a ranked pickup list, a start or sit take, or a quick summary of the biggest movers.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is this affiliated with Sleeper? No. It is an independent tool that reads the public Sleeper API.

Do I need a Sleeper account? No. The trending and profile endpoints are public and keyless.

What does the count mean? It is the number of add or drop transactions for that player inside your lookback window.

Why is injuryStatus often null? Sleeper only sets an injury tag for flagged players. Healthy players have no tag.

Can I get dropped players too? Yes. Set type to drop.

How far back can the window go? Up to 168 hours, which is one week.

How many players can I pull? Up to 200 trending players per run before enrichment.

Does it cover free agents? Yes. Free agents resolve from the profile map and return a null team.

Is the data live? Each run fetches the current trending feed at that moment.

What sports are covered? This Actor covers NFL fantasy trends.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Results are available through the Apify API and dataset endpoints, so you can pull them into any app, script or workflow that can read a web request.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Sleeper. Only publicly available data collected.