ESPN Scores, Schedules & Odds Scraper

Get scores, schedules and betting odds (spread, moneyline, over/under) for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, college football & basketball, Premier League, MLS, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Champions League and more — from ESPN's public scoreboard data. No API key, no login. One clean row per game.

Fast and cheap: JSON only, no browser, no proxy.

What you can do with it

• Live score tracking — schedule it every few minutes with Only new or changed games and push updates to Slack, Discord, Google Sheets or your app.
• Line-movement monitoring — capture spread / moneyline / total for upcoming games and see when they move.
• Sports apps & bots — feed schedules and results into your product without paying for an expensive sports-data API.
• Fantasy, betting research & analytics — build historical datasets of results and closing lines across many leagues.

Sample output

{
  "league": "football/nfl",
  "leagueName": "National Football League",
  "eventId": "401872965",
  "name": "Indianapolis Colts at Washington Commanders",
  "shortName": "IND @ WSH",
  "date": "2026-10-04T13:30Z",
  "status": "scheduled",
  "statusDetail": "10/4 - 9:30 AM EDT",
  "completed": false,
  "homeTeam": { "id": "28", "name": "Washington Commanders", "abbreviation": "WSH", "record": "1-2" },
  "awayTeam": { "id": "11", "name": "Indianapolis Colts", "abbreviation": "IND", "record": "1-2" },
  "homeScore": null,
  "awayScore": null,
  "winner": null,
  "venue": "Tottenham Hotspur Stadium",
  "city": "London",
  "country": "England",
  "broadcasts": ["NFL Net"],
  "odds": {
    "provider": "DraftKings",
    "details": "IND -3.5",
    "spread": 3.5,
    "overUnder": 47.5,
    "favorite": "away",
    "moneylineHome": "+154",
    "moneylineAway": "-185",
    "spreadHome": { "line": "+3.5", "odds": "-112" },
    "spreadAway": { "line": "-3.5", "odds": "-108" },
    "totalOver": { "line": "o47.5", "odds": "-102" },
    "totalUnder": { "line": "u47.5", "odds": "-118" }
  },
  "url": "https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872965",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T08:00:00+00:00"
}

Finished games have homeScore, awayScore, winner and status: "final". Live games have status: "live" and the current clock in statusDetail.

Input

Field	Description
leagues	Short names (nfl, nba, wnba, mlb, nhl, ncaaf, ncaab, epl, mls, laliga, bundesliga, seriea, ligue1, ucl, uel, liga-mx, k-league, j-league) or any ESPN path like soccer/ned.1.
dateFrom / dateTo	YYYY-MM-DD or relative (today-3, today+7). Default: 3 days back to 3 days ahead. Max 62 days per run.
statusFilter	all, scheduled, live or final.
teams	Only games with these teams — abbreviation (LAL) or name (Lakers, Arsenal).
includeOdds	Include spread / moneyline / total when available (default on).
onlyChanged	Return only games whose score, status or odds changed since the last run.
maxResults	Stop after this many games.

Example: live NBA + NFL scores every 5 minutes

{ "leagues": ["nba", "nfl"], "dateFrom": "today", "dateTo": "today", "statusFilter": "live", "onlyChanged": true }

Example: next week's Premier League lines

{ "leagues": ["epl"], "dateFrom": "today", "dateTo": "today+7", "statusFilter": "scheduled", "includeOdds": true }

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription: a small fee per run plus about $2 per 1,000 games saved. Platform usage is included.

Notes

• Odds come from the provider ESPN shows (usually DraftKings) and are typically present for upcoming games only; finished games may have none.
• If ESPN blocks direct access from cloud servers, the Actor automatically retries through Apify Proxy — proxy cost is included in the price.
• A run summary per league (requests, games, status, access route) is saved as SUMMARY in the key-value store.
• This Actor reads ESPN's publicly served scoreboard data. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by ESPN.

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