ESPN Sports Scores Scraper 🏈🏀⚽🏒⚾

Scrape live, upcoming and final game scores from ESPN across the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and world soccer — no API key, no login, no browser. This actor calls ESPN's public site API directly, so it is fast, cheap and datacenter-proxy friendly.

For every game you get the teams, scores, records, status (scheduled / in-progress / final), venue and city — perfect for live-score apps, sports dashboards, betting and analytics pipelines, and fan sites.

Only ~$0.50 per 1,000 games on top of platform usage. Pay for what you scrape.

✨ Features

• ⚡ Fast & keyless — hits ESPN's hidden JSON API, no scraping of HTML.
• 🌍 Multi-league — NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Premier League, La Liga, college hoops and more, in one run.
• 🟢 Live + final + upcoming — game state, score and status detail for any matchup.
• 📅 Any date — fetch today's slate or any historical/future date with YYYYMMDD.
• 🧱 Flat, clean schema — one dataset item per game, every field ready for Sheets/CSV/DB.
• 💸 Cheap — datacenter-friendly, minimal compute.

🚀 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	What to scrape. Currently scores (game scoreboard).
leagues	array	Leagues to scrape, each as sport/league. Prefill: ["football/nfl","basketball/nba","soccer/eng.1"].
date	string	Optional YYYYMMDD (e.g. 20260821). Empty = today.
maxItems	integer	Max games to return (default 200, max 2000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "scores",
  "leagues": ["football/nfl", "basketball/nba", "soccer/eng.1"],
  "date": "",
  "maxItems": 200
}

🏆 Supported leagues

Pass any ESPN sport/league pair, including:

League	Code
NFL	football/nfl
NCAA Football	football/college-football
NBA	basketball/nba
WNBA	basketball/wnba
NCAA Men's Basketball	basketball/mens-college-basketball
MLB	baseball/mlb
NHL	hockey/nhl
Premier League	soccer/eng.1
MLS	soccer/usa.1
La Liga	soccer/esp.1
Serie A	soccer/ita.1
Bundesliga	soccer/ger.1
UEFA Champions League	soccer/uefa.champions

📤 Output

One item per game:

{
  "league": "soccer/eng.1",
  "event_id": "401879301",
  "name": "Coventry City at Arsenal",
  "short_name": "COV @ ARS",
  "date": "2026-08-21T19:00:00+00:00",
  "state": "pre",
  "completed": false,
  "status_detail": "Fri, August 21st at 3:00 PM EDT",
  "home_team": "Arsenal",
  "home_abbr": "ARS",
  "home_score": 0,
  "home_record": "0-0-0",
  "away_team": "Coventry City",
  "away_abbr": "COV",
  "away_score": 0,
  "away_record": "0-0-0",
  "venue": "Emirates Stadium",
  "city": "London",
  "source": "espn",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T12:00:00+00:00"
}

💡 Use cases

• Sports data — power feeds and databases with structured game results.
• Live scores apps — poll during game days for real-time score updates.
• Betting & analytics — combine scores, records and status for models.
• Fan sites — embed schedules, results and standings context.

📈 Pricing

Roughly $0.50 per 1,000 games returned, plus Apify platform usage. A typical daily multi-league run costs a few cents.

🔗 Related actors

• ESPN Teams Scraper
• ESPN News Scraper
• Sports Scraper
• OpenSky Flights Scraper

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly available data from ESPN for informational purposes. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by ESPN. Respect ESPN's terms and applicable laws when using the data.

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