BBC Sport Scraper
Pricing
Pay per event + usage
Scrapes BBC Sport: fixtures, results & live scores plus news for any sport, team or competition, and topic search — via the reversed BBC Sport mobile API. No account. Read-only.
You can access the BBC Sport Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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