🏁 Speedrun.com Public API Scraper

🚀 Export the Speedrun.com game catalogue with abbreviations, release dates, platforms, and categories, straight from the public Speedrun.com API.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 12 fields per record · 40,000+ games · Categories and platforms · Abbreviations and weblinks

The Speedrun.com Public API Scraper turns the speedrun.com public endpoint into a clean dataset. It calls the public API with whichever filters you supply, then flattens each record into one row.

Coverage spans 40,000+ games · categories and platforms · abbreviations and weblinks. Each row carries the most useful identifiers, names, scores, and timestamps the upstream feed exposes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🏁 Speedrunners	Bulk-discover categories for new runs
📊 Esports analysts	Track speedrunning catalogue growth
📰 Games journalists	Verify run categories fast
🎓 Games historians	Mine 20 years of speedrun data
🤖 ML engineers	Build training sets on speedrun metadata
👩‍💻 Developers	Mirror the Speedrun.com catalogue

📋 What the Speedrun.com Public API Scraper does

• Calls /games with optional name query, abbreviation, and bulk flag.
• Exposes id, name, abbreviation, release date, platforms, and weblink.
• Auto-paginates via the upstream offset and max parameters.
• Casts dates cleanly.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a clean error record.

💡 Why it matters. Speedrun.com is the canonical catalogue of speedrunning records. This actor turns its game listings into a flat dataset.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
name	string	No	See examples below.
maxItems	integer	No	Free users 10, paid up to 1,000,000. Prefill is 10.

Example 1, First 50 games.

{ "bulk": true, "maxItems": 50 }

Example 2, Search Mario.

{ "name": "mario", "maxItems": 20 }

⚠️ Good to Know. The Speedrun.com API is public and free.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 id	string	Speedrun.com game id.
🎮 name	string	Game name.
🔤 abbreviation	string	Game abbreviation slug.
🇯🇵 nameJapanese	string	Japanese name when present.
📅 releaseDate	string	Release date when present.
🕹️ platforms	array	Platform ids.
🏷️ genres	array	Genre ids.
👥 developers	array	Developer ids.
🏢 publishers	array	Publisher ids.
🔗 weblink	string	Speedrun.com URL.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When fetched.
❌ error	string	Set when upstream returned an error.

Sample record.

{
  "id": "",
  "name": "",
  "abbreviation": "",
  "nameJapanese": "",
  "releaseDate": "",
  "platforms": [],
  "genres": [],
  "developers": [],
  "publishers": [],
  "weblink": "",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public Speedrun.com endpoint, no scraping tricks needed. | | 🧹 | Flattens nested upstream payloads into one row per record. | | 🔢 | Casts numeric fields cleanly for spreadsheet imports. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as clean rows. | | 🔌 | Filters exposed for the most common slicing needs. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for spreadsheet, warehouse, or webhook export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Pagination	Flattening	Export formats
Raw curl	5 min	manual	none	manual
DIY Python script	30 min	yes	partial	code
This Actor	5 seconds	yes	yes	7 formats

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick your filters from the schema above.
3. Click Start. Your dataset is ready in seconds.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Analytics. Mirror Speedrun.com into a warehouse for dashboards.

🏢 Internal tooling. Mirror the data into private apps without writing client code.

📰 Journalism. Verify and bulk-fetch records for stories.

🤖 Machine learning. Build training sets from a known canonical source.

🔌 Automating Speedrun.com Public API Scraper

• Make / Zapier: schedule a daily run.
• Cron schedule: native Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks: POST on completion.
• Warehouse pipe: native integrations move datasets straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach API integration with a clean dataset.

🧪 Personal research. Track the data you care about.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Power public dashboards.

🧰 Tinkering and prototyping. Spin up a feed for side projects in seconds.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to design a pipeline. The input fields, schema, and examples above contain everything an LLM needs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No. The endpoint is public.

❓ Pagination? Yes, handled automatically where the upstream supports it.

❓ Rate limits? The upstream sets the rate limit. The actor surfaces upstream errors cleanly.

❓ Schema stability? Core fields are stable. Optional fields are passed through when present.

❓ Real-time? Yes, every run hits the live endpoint.

❓ Spreadsheet export? Yes, via the Apify dataset UI.

❓ Scheduling? Yes, via the Apify scheduler.

❓ Public data only? Yes.

❓ Free trial? Yes, $5 free credit on signup covers many runs.

❓ Webhook integration? Yes, native Apify webhooks fire on run completion.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint. Trigger runs from a calendar event, a form submission, a cron job, or pipe results straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or a Postgres warehouse.

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