ESPN API – Sports API for Live Scores, Standings & Schedules
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 games
Extract ESPN sports data: live scores, schedules, standings, teams and box scores for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college sports, top soccer leagues and UFC. Clean JSON for bettors, odds modellers, fantasy apps and AI agents.
You can access the ESPN API – Sports API for Live Scores, Standings & Schedules 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "leagues": [9 "nfl",10 "nba",11 "mlb",12 "nhl",13 ] }14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish16run = client.actor("rowfeed/espn-sports-data-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)19print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")20for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():21 print(item)22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use ESPN API – Sports API for Live Scores, Standings & Schedules API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: