Baseball Reference Scraper
Spider read baseball-reference.com in 187 ms without a browser and returned 1,085 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Stathead Baseball Powered By Baseball Reference" and "Stathead Resources".
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The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on baseball-reference.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-standard-batting.shtml");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025-standard-batting.shtml");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const players = [];
document.querySelectorAll("#players_standard_batting tbody tr:not(.thead)").forEach(el => {
const name = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='player'] a")?.textContent?.trim();
const team = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='team_ID'] a")?.textContent?.trim();
const avg = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='batting_avg']")?.textContent?.trim();
const hr = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='HR']")?.textContent?.trim();
const rbi = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='RBI']")?.textContent?.trim();
const war = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='WAR']")?.textContent?.trim();
if (name) players.push({ name, team, avg, hr, rbi, war });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: players.length, players: players.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What baseball-reference.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000464 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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