🏁 Speedrun.com Leaderboards Scraper

🚀 Pull full-game leaderboards from speedrun.com in one run. Give it a game name and get every top run with place, player, time, platform, region, and video link.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-04 · 📊 16 fields per record · Any game on speedrun.com · Full-game categories

Speedrun.com is the central record book for the speedrunning community, tracking verified completions across thousands of games. This Actor turns any game's full-game leaderboards into a clean, structured table you can analyze, archive, or feed into your own tools.

Point it at a game by name and it resolves the game, walks every full-game category (such as 120 Star, 70 Star, Any%, or 100%), and returns the ranked runs with player names, finishing times, the platform and region a run was played on, the verification date, and the run video. Want a single category? Add a category name and it scopes to just that board.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Speedrun community organizers	Build and archive leaderboard snapshots over time
Esports and gaming analysts	Track records, pace progression, and platform splits
Content creators and streamers	Pull current top runs and video links for highlights
Data and hobby researchers	Study run-time distributions across categories and games
Tournament and event staff	Verify standings and seed brackets from live boards

📋 What the Speedrun.com Leaderboards Scraper does

This Actor reads the public speedrun.com API and returns the runs that make up a game's full-game leaderboards. It:

• Resolves a game from its name automatically (first match on speedrun.com).
• Lists every full-game category for that game, or just one if you name it.
• Returns each ranked run with place, player, finishing time, date, platform, region, video link, comment, and verification date.
• Resolves player names, platforms, and regions inline so you get readable values instead of internal IDs.
• Handles guest runners and multi-runner entries.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Key	Type	Description
🎮 Game Name	gameName	string	Game to look up on speedrun.com. Required. The first matching game is resolved automatically.
🏷 Category Name	categoryName	string	Optional. Limit results to one full-game category by name, such as 70 Star or Any%. Leave empty to scrape every full-game category.
🔢 Top N Runs	topN	integer	How many top runs to pull from each leaderboard. Default 50.
📦 Max Items	maxItems	integer	Cap on total runs returned. Free plan is limited to 10.

Example 1 — every full-game category of a game:

{
    "gameName": "Super Mario 64",
    "topN": 50,
    "maxItems": 200
}

Example 2 — a single category, top 10 runs:

{
    "gameName": "Super Mario 64",
    "categoryName": "70 Star",
    "topN": 10,
    "maxItems": 10
}

⚠️ Good to Know: The game name resolves to the closest match on speedrun.com, so use the title as it appears on the site. Category names are matched exactly, so Any% and 70 Star must be spelled as shown on the game's page. The public speedrun.com API can be slow and rate-limits heavy use, so very large pulls take longer.

📊 Output

Each record is one ranked run on a leaderboard.

Field	Key	Description
🎮 Game	game	Game title
🏷 Category	category	Full-game category name
🥇 Place	place	Rank on the leaderboard
🏃 Player	playerName	Runner name (or names for co-op runs)
⏱ Time	runTime	Finishing time as an ISO 8601 duration
⏲ Time (s)	runTimeSeconds	Finishing time in seconds
📅 Date	date	Date the run was performed
🕹 Platform	platform	Console or platform used
🌍 Region	region	Hardware region
🎛 Emulated	emulated	Whether the run used an emulator
🎬 Video	videoLink	Link to the run video
💬 Comment	comment	Runner comment
✅ Verified	verifiedDate	When a moderator verified the run
🆔 Run ID	runId	speedrun.com run identifier
🔗 Web Link	weblink	Public page for the run
🕒 Scraped	scrapedAt	When this record was collected

Real sample records:

{
    "game": "Super Mario 64",
    "category": "120 Star",
    "place": 1,
    "playerName": "Suigi",
    "runTime": "PT1H35M14S",
    "runTimeSeconds": 5714,
    "date": "2026-04-26",
    "platform": "Nintendo 64",
    "region": "JPN / NTSC",
    "emulated": false,
    "videoLink": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KboxS9NNFJMhttps://youtu.be/KboxS9NNFJM",
    "comment": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KboxS9NNFJMhttps://youtu.be/KboxS9NNFJM\n\nsolid",
    "verifiedDate": "2026-04-30T02:48:05Z",
    "runId": "z5npldjz",
    "weblink": "https://www.speedrun.com/sm64/runs/z5npldjz",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:28:31.034Z"
}

{
    "game": "Super Mario 64",
    "category": "120 Star",
    "place": 2,
    "playerName": "Karin",
    "runTime": "PT1H35M30S",
    "runTimeSeconds": 5730,
    "date": "2025-08-11",
    "platform": "Nintendo 64",
    "region": "JPN / NTSC",
    "emulated": false,
    "videoLink": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjKi6aruFVs?t=1",
    "comment": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjKi6aruFVs?t=1",
    "verifiedDate": "2025-08-16T01:58:59Z",
    "runId": "yv77ke4y",
    "weblink": "https://www.speedrun.com/sm64/runs/yv77ke4y",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:28:31.114Z"
}

{
    "game": "Super Mario 64",
    "category": "120 Star",
    "place": 2,
    "playerName": "anonymous",
    "runTime": "PT1H35M30S",
    "runTimeSeconds": 5730,
    "date": "2025-03-19",
    "platform": "Nintendo 64",
    "region": "JPN / NTSC",
    "emulated": false,
    "videoLink": null,
    "comment": "Mod note: This runner has chosen to remove their run from the leaderboard but it has been verified and backed up.",
    "verifiedDate": "2025-09-16T15:59:21Z",
    "runId": "z00v01jz",
    "weblink": "https://www.speedrun.com/sm64/runs/z00v01jz",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:28:31.136Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Readable values, not IDs. Player names, platforms, and regions are resolved for you.
• One game name in, full boards out. No need to dig up internal game or category identifiers.
• Category control. Scrape every full-game category or scope to exactly one.
• Verification aware. Each run carries its moderator verification date.
• Handles edge cases. Guest runners and co-op entries come through cleanly.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup effort	Readable platform and region	Multi-category in one run	Maintenance
This Actor	Type a game name	Yes	Yes	Managed
Hand-querying the public API	Learn endpoints and embeds	Manual ID lookups	Build it yourself	Yours to keep
Copying from the website	None	Yes, but manual	Tedious	Constant

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the Speedrun.com Leaderboards Scraper in the Apify Console.
3. Enter a game name (try Super Mario 64), and optionally a category name and Top N.
4. Click Start and watch the runs populate.
5. Download your results or connect them to the integrations below.

💼 Business use cases

Community and events

Goal	How this helps
Archive leaderboards	Snapshot boards on a schedule for history
Seed tournaments	Pull current standings to build brackets

Analytics

Goal	How this helps
Track record pace	Compare finishing times across dates
Platform splits	Group runs by platform and region

Content

Goal	How this helps
Highlight reels	Grab top runs with their video links
Social posts	Surface new records the moment they verify

Research

Goal	How this helps
Run-time distributions	Study how times cluster per category
Cross-game comparisons	Pull several games into one table

🔌 Automating Speedrun.com Leaderboards Scraper

Connect this Actor to the tools you already use:

• Make and Zapier for no-code workflows.
• Slack to post new top runs to a channel.
• Airbyte to sync runs into a warehouse.
• GitHub Actions to run on a schedule.
• Google Drive to archive snapshots.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: analyze how speedrun times evolve over a game's life.
• Personal: keep a private record of your favorite category's top 10.
• Non-profit: support charity speedrun events with live standings.
• Experimentation: build a small dashboard of records you care about.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant

Paste your results into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Microsoft Copilot and ask questions like "Which platform dominates this leaderboard?" or "Summarize how the record improved over the last year."

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Does this need an API key? No. It uses the public speedrun.com API, no key or login required.

How do I find the right game name? Use the title as it appears on speedrun.com. The first matching game is selected.

What is a full-game category? A leaderboard for completing the whole game under a ruleset, such as 120 Star or Any%. Individual-level boards are not included.

Can I scrape just one category? Yes. Set categoryName to the exact category name shown on the game's page.

Are individual-level (IL) runs included? No. This Actor focuses on full-game leaderboards.

Why is a video link sometimes empty? Not every run has a public video attached, so that field can be empty for some runs.

What do the times mean? runTime is an ISO 8601 duration and runTimeSeconds is the same value in seconds for easy sorting.

Are guest runners supported? Yes. Runs by guests appear with their guest name.

How many runs can I pull? Set topN per leaderboard and maxItems for the total. Free accounts are capped at 10 items.

Is the data verified? Each run includes the moderator verification date from speedrun.com.

Why is the run sometimes slow? The public speedrun.com API rate-limits heavy use, so very large pulls take longer.

Is this affiliated with speedrun.com? No. It is an independent tool that reads only publicly available data.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Results live in a standard Apify dataset, so you can connect them to webhooks, the Apify API, or any of the integrations listed above.

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