ESPN Teams & Standings Scraper

Scrape complete team directories, records, standings, logos and colors from ESPN across every major league — NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college and international soccer — with no API key and no login. Fast, datacenter-proxy friendly, and cheap.

Perfect for building sports data pipelines, fantasy and fan apps, betting/analytics dashboards, and team directories.

What it does

Given a list of leagues (in sport/league format), the actor returns one clean record per team including:

• Team ID, display name, short name and location
• Abbreviation (e.g. LAL, NYY, GB)
• Primary and alternate team colors (hex)
• Official team logo URL
• ESPN clubhouse URL
• Active flag
• Optional: win/loss record summary and standing summary (includeRecord)

Example input

{
  "mode": "teams",
  "leagues": ["football/nfl", "basketball/nba"],
  "includeRecord": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example output

{
  "league": "basketball/nba",
  "team_id": "13",
  "display_name": "Los Angeles Lakers",
  "name": "Lakers",
  "location": "Los Angeles",
  "abbreviation": "LAL",
  "color": "552583",
  "alternate_color": "fdb927",
  "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/nba/500/lal.png",
  "url": "https://www.espn.com/nba/team/_/name/lal/los-angeles-lakers",
  "is_active": true,
  "record": "47-35",
  "standing_summary": "3rd in Pacific Division",
  "source": "espn",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Supported leagues (examples)

Sport	sport/league
NFL	football/nfl
College Football	football/college-football
NBA	basketball/nba
WNBA	basketball/wnba
Men's College Basketball	basketball/mens-college-basketball
MLB	baseball/mlb
NHL	hockey/nhl
English Premier League	soccer/eng.1
La Liga	soccer/esp.1
Bundesliga	soccer/ger.1

Any league ESPN exposes works — just pass the matching sport/league slug.

Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	teams	What to scrape. teams lists every team per league.
leagues	array	["football/nfl","basketball/nba"]	Leagues in sport/league format.
includeRecord	boolean	false	Also fetch each team's record & standing (one extra request per team).
maxItems	integer	200	Max team records to output (max 2000).

Pricing

Roughly $0.50 per 1,000 team records on the pay-per-result model — one of the cheapest ways to keep a full sports team database in sync.

Use cases

• Sports data feeds and ETL pipelines
• Fantasy & fan apps needing logos, colors and team metadata
• Analytics & betting dashboards keyed on team IDs and records
• Team directories and content sites

Related actors

• ESPN Scores Scraper
• ESPN News Scraper
• Sports Scraper
• OpenSky Flights Scraper

Keywords

espn scraper, sports data api, nfl teams, nba teams, mlb teams, nhl teams, team logos, team colors, standings scraper, sports directory, soccer teams, fantasy sports data, sports analytics

Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly available data from ESPN's public site endpoints. Use responsibly and in accordance with ESPN's terms and applicable law.