# Changelog of Sports Data Scraper — Live Scores, Stats & Schedules (`sian.agency/sports-data-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/sports-data-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/sports-data-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Sports Data Scraper will be documented in this file.

### 2026-07-31 — 9 new operations

#### 🎉 New

- **League Standings** — full league table by tournament and season, with overall, home-only and away-only variants. Position, played, W/D/L, goals for/against, goal difference and points per team.
- **Live Scores** — every match currently in play for a chosen sport. Football, basketball, tennis, ice hockey, MMA and motorsport.
- **Match Lineups** — starting XI and bench for both sides, with formation, shirt numbers and per-player match statistics.
- **Match Statistics** — every published statistic for a match, split by period and group: possession, shots, passing, duels and more.
- **Match Incidents** — the full match timeline: goals, cards, substitutions and period markers, with the running score at each point.
- **Match Odds** — published betting markets for a match, one row per market and outcome, with current and opening prices.
- **Match Details** — the complete match record: venue, referee, attendance, round, both teams and the final score.
- **Team Squad** — every player in a club's squad with position, shirt number, height, preferred foot and date of birth.
- **Team Transfers** — incoming and outgoing transfers with fee, direction, origin and destination club, and transfer date.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- One actor now covers 15 operations across the whole sports data surface — chain search → seasons → fixtures → match detail → lineups → statistics without switching tools.
- Live scores span six sports from a single input, instead of one actor per sport.

### 2026-07-31

#### 🔧 Improvements

- **Run notifications now say what actually happened** — success, partial and failed runs are reported separately, with the succeeded/failed row split, the run tier and a direct link to the run
- **Better Store placement** — listed under Sports, Developer Tools and Business so the Actor is findable by category, not just by search

### 2026-05-28

#### 🎉 Sports Data Scraper - Launch!

- **Tournament Search** — Find any tournament across 30+ sports by keyword
- **Season Discovery** — Browse all seasons within a tournament with year and name
- **Match Events Extraction** — Extract full match schedules with scores, teams, status, and round info
- **Team Profiles** — Get detailed team info including name, country, sport, and logos
- **Team Match History** — Paginated match history for any team across sports
- **Player Profiles** — Extract player details with position, nationality, and team affiliation
- **Smart Pagination** — Automatically fetch multiple pages with configurable limits (up to 50 pages)
- **Auto-Retry** — Exponential backoff on transient errors for reliable data extraction
- **HTML Reports** — Visual run summary generated for every execution

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Access structured sports data from 30+ sports without managing API keys
- Chain operations naturally: search → seasons → events → teams → players
- Pay only for successful results — error rows are free
- Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel directly from Apify
- Build sports analytics dashboards, fantasy data feeds, or betting research pipelines

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Sports analysts building real-time analytics dashboards for league performance tracking
- Fantasy sports developers powering platforms with player and team data
- Betting researchers gathering historical match results for predictive models
- Data scientists building comprehensive team and player databases across 30+ sports
- Content creators tracking league seasons and match schedules