BetExplorer Scraper

🚀 BetExplorer Scraper: Historical Betting Odds, Results and Fixtures

The BetExplorer Scraper exports fixtures, results and betting odds from BetExplorer as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Each match comes with teams, kick-off date, final score, winner and average 1X2 odds, and, when you switch it on, every bookmaker's own price with the time it last moved, across every market. Use it as a no-key odds API, for historical betting odds, odds comparison or odds movement tracking.

🎯 Use Cases

• Odds API without a key: pull upcoming fixtures with average odds into your app, sheet or model on a schedule.
• Odds comparison across bookmakers: compare about 20 bookmakers' prices for the same match side by side and spot the best line.
• Track odds movement: run it daily on fixture pages and keep every snapshot to see how prices move toward kick-off.
• Historical betting odds for backtesting: export whole past seasons with scores and the odds that were on offer, then test your betting model.
• Closing line value (CLV): every bookmaker price carries its last-update timestamp, so you can compare your bet price with the closing price.
• Football data for analytics: a consistent match history (rounds, scores, winners) for prediction tools and dashboards, across seven sports.

✨ Features

• Fixtures and results in one run: a plain league URL returns both finished results and upcoming fixtures.
• Whole seasons at once: a season URL returns the full season, back to the oldest season BetExplorer keeps for that competition.
• Every bookmaker, every market: with the odds option on, each match carries 1X2, Over/Under, Asian Handicap, Draw No Bet, Double Chance and Both Teams To Score with all lines. One Premier League match returned 999 individual prices.
• Per-price timestamps: each bookmaker price shows when it last changed.
• Seven sports: football, tennis, basketball, hockey, baseball, handball and volleyball. Markets follow the sport (tennis has Home/Away instead of 1X2).
• Multi-stage competitions: Champions League or playoff URLs with ?stage= keep that stage.
• Fair billing: a match listed by two of your URLs is saved and charged once, a match whose odds book came back empty is charged at the plain match price, and the run stops cleanly at your max charge.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Paste league or season URLs from BetExplorer, for example https://www.betexplorer.com/football/england/premier-league/. Add /results/ or /fixtures/ to take just one list.
2. Set Max matches (default 50) and switch on Scrape every bookmaker's odds if you need the full odds book.
3. Run the scraper and download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
League URLs (startUrls)	BetExplorer league pages. A plain league URL returns results and fixtures; /results/ or /fixtures/ returns one list; a season URL such as .../premier-league-2025-2026/results/ returns that season.
Max matches (maxItems)	Maximum matches across all URLs. Default 50.
Scrape every bookmaker's odds (scrapeOdds)	Adds the full odds book to each match. Slower and billed at the odds-book price. Default off.

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.betexplorer.com/football/england/premier-league/fixtures/" },
        { "url": "https://www.betexplorer.com/football/spain/laliga-2025-2026/results/" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 500,
    "scrapeOdds": false
}

💰 Pricing

Pay per match you get. No monthly rental.

Event	Price	What you get
Match	$0.003 per match ($3.00 per 1,000)	One fixture or result with score and average odds
Match with full odds book	$0.008 per match ($8.00 per 1,000)	The same match plus every bookmaker's price across every market. Charged instead of Match, only when the odds option is on
Actor start	$0.00005 per run	Charged once when the run starts

Examples: the default 50 matches = $0.15 · a full 380-match Premier League season = $1.14 · the same season with every bookmaker's odds = $3.04.

📊 Sample Output Data

A finished match from the 2025/2026 Premier League season:

{
    "matchId": "xQXUa3UG",
    "url": "https://www.betexplorer.com/football/england/premier-league-2025-2026/brighton-manchester-united/xQXUa3UG/",
    "sport": "Football",
    "country": "England",
    "league": "Premier League",
    "season": "2025/2026",
    "round": "38. Round",
    "startTime": "2026-05-23T22:00:00.000Z",
    "homeTeam": "Brighton",
    "awayTeam": "Manchester Utd",
    "status": "FINISHED",
    "score": "0:3",
    "homeScore": 0,
    "awayScore": 3,
    "winner": "AWAY",
    "averageOdds": { "1": 1.88, "X": 4.14, "2": 3.46 }
}

With the odds option on, the same match also carries an odds array, one entry per market:

{
    "odds": [
        {
            "market": "1X2",
            "prices": [
                {
                    "bookmaker": "1xBet",
                    "outcomes": [
                        { "label": "1", "odd": 1.96, "updatedAt": "2026-05-24T13:53:00.000Z" },
                        { "label": "X", "odd": 4.44, "updatedAt": "2026-05-24T13:50:00.000Z" },
                        { "label": "2", "odd": 3.38, "updatedAt": "2026-05-24T13:53:00.000Z" }
                    ]
                },
                "…"
            ]
        },
        {
            "market": "Over/Under",
            "prices": [
                {
                    "bookmaker": "1xBet",
                    "handicap": "0.5",
                    "outcomes": [
                        { "label": "Over", "odd": 1.02, "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T16:01:00.000Z" },
                        { "label": "Under", "odd": 21, "updatedAt": "2026-05-24T13:39:00.000Z" }
                    ]
                },
                "…"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

All times are UTC. Results lists show only the match date, so startTime on a finished match is midnight Central European time on that date (22:00 or 23:00 UTC the evening before). Upcoming fixtures carry the real kick-off time. averageOdds is keyed by the market's own labels (1, X, 2 in football). handicap appears on Over/Under and Asian Handicap prices and holds the line. status is FINISHED or SCHEDULED; score, homeScore, awayScore and winner (HOME, DRAW, AWAY) appear on finished matches.

🔁 Schedule and Integrate

To track odds movement, run it once or twice a day on the fixture pages of the leagues you follow. Each run is a dated snapshot of the odds, and together they show how each line moved before kick-off. For results, a daily run after the matchday adds the new scores. Set it up in Apify Schedules, and send the data to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or a webhook with Apify integrations.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). An agent can call it with:

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.betexplorer.com/football/england/premier-league/fixtures/" }], "maxItems": 20 }

❓ FAQ

Does BetExplorer have an official API? BetExplorer does not offer a public API. This Actor is a practical alternative: no key, no approval and no rate-limit handling on your side, and you get a structured odds and results feed for any league page on the site.

Can I use it as a free odds API or betting odds API? It works like an odds API you call on demand: start it from the Apify API, a schedule or an MCP client and read the dataset as JSON. You pay only per match returned.

How far back do the historical betting odds go? As far as BetExplorer's archive goes for the competition, sometimes over a century of results. Add one season URL per season. Multi-bookmaker odds are thin before the late 2000s.

Do I need a BetExplorer account? No. The Actor reads public pages only.

Why do I see different bookmakers than on the website? BetExplorer shows bookmakers by the visitor's country. The run connects from Malta by default, which gives the widest international list. To see one country's licensed bookmakers (UK, Germany, Brazil, US), change the country under Proxy configuration in the input.

Why is bookmakerCount or a score field missing? Results lists don't show a bookmaker count, so finished matches leave bookmakerCount out; upcoming fixtures have the real count. Score fields appear only once a match is finished.

How do I measure closing line value? Turn on the odds option and scrape the match after kick-off. Each bookmaker's last price before the start is its closing line, and updatedAt tells you when it was set.

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