BBC Sport Scraper – Fixtures, Results, Live Scores & News ⚽🏏🎾

Scrape BBC Sport as clean, structured data — fixtures, results and live scores plus the latest news for any sport, team or competition, and topic search. It talks directly to the BBC Sport mobile API (reversed from the BBC Sport Android app), so there's no account, no login, and no API key — pick a topic and run.

Great for building sports datasets, score/fixture trackers, news aggregators and fan apps.

What you can scrape

• ⚽ Fixtures & results — per sport/competition/team: status (pre-event / live / result), competition, home & away teams, score, kick-off time (ISO-8601 UTC), team crests and the match/ live-page URL.
• 📰 News — the topic's story promos: headline, article URL and image.
• 🔎 Topic search — find a sport, team or competition by keyword (name, synopsis, topic id).
• 🗂️ Sports catalogue (FREE) — the full list of sports/topics with their slugs, to discover what to scrape. This mode is free — no per-row charge.

Key features

Feature	Details
Data source	BBC Sport mobile API — the same feed the BBC Sport app uses (international edition)
Auth	None — no account, no cookies, no API key
Coverage	Football, cricket, rugby, F1, tennis, golf, athletics, boxing and more
Export	JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or via the Apify API

Input

Scrape a topic's fixtures & news:

{ "mode": "topic", "topic": "football", "include": "both", "maxItems": 100 }

Fixtures/results only for a competition:

{ "mode": "topic", "topic": "football/premier-league", "include": "matches" }

Find a topic, or list the whole catalogue (free):

{ "mode": "search", "searchTerm": "arsenal" }

{ "mode": "sports" }

Field	Notes
mode	topic (default), search, or sports (free catalogue)
topic	Topic mode: a slug (football, cricket, football/premier-league), path, or bbc.com/sport URL
include	Topic mode: both (default), matches, or news
searchTerm	Search mode: a keyword, e.g. arsenal, wimbledon
maxItems	Cap rows (0 = all)
proxyConfiguration	Optional — off by default (not needed)

Output

Match row (fixture / live / result):

{
  "type": "match", "topic": "Football",
  "status": "PRE_EVENT", "competition": "Premier League",
  "home": "Ipswich", "away": "Liverpool",
  "home_score": null, "away_score": null,
  "kickoff": "2026-09-04T19:00:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/c6vgy8x2z08et"
}

Story row (news):

{ "type": "story", "topic": "Football", "title": "Deadline day reaction…",
  "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/…", "image": "https://…" }

Notes on the data

• Fixtures live on the hub/competition pages. A sport hub (e.g. football) returns the current fixtures/results plus news; some competition pages return mostly news — use the free sports catalogue or search to find the right topic for scores.
• Read-only public content. Scores, fixtures, news metadata — not video/audio streams (those are geo-restricted and out of scope).

Pricing

Pay-per-event, so you only pay for the data you pull:

• $0.001 per match (fixture/result)
• $0.0005 per news story
• $0.0005 per topic search result
• Sports catalogue (mode: sports) is free — no per-row charge

FAQ

Do I need a BBC account or API key? No — the actor uses BBC Sport's public mobile content feeds.

Which sports are covered? All of them — football, cricket, rugby, F1, tennis, golf, athletics, boxing and more. Use the free sports mode to list every topic.

Can I get video/live streams? No. This returns scores, fixtures and news metadata only; media is geo-restricted and out of scope.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the BBC. It returns read-only public content. All trademarks belong to their respective owners; use the scraped data responsibly and in line with applicable terms and laws.