Basketball Reference Scraper
Spider read basketball-reference.com in 182 ms without a browser and returned 919 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Every NBA Team", "2025-26 NBA Standings" and "Stathead Basketball Powered By Basketball Reference".
Player pages include basic statistics and links to player's game logs, splits, advanced stats, and more.## Every NBA Team### 2025-26 NBA StandingsTeam pages include statistics, rosters, payroll, schedules, game logs, splits, advanced stats, and more.## Stathead Basketball Powered By Basketball Reference### The sports search engine that was made for *fans like you*Exploring the Basketball Reference database just got easierhttps://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/sport/basketball?&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_source=bbr&utm_campaign=2023_02_wdgt_home_stathead&utm_content=bttn_start_your_free_trial>)https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/basketball-sample-searches.html?&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_source=bbr&utm_campaign=2023_02_wdgt_home_stathead&utm_content=bttn_learn_more>)* Access to the most complete sports database on the internet* Discovery tools to search the Basketball Reference database* Ad free viewing on Basketball Reference**Which team has the highest average margin of victory in a season?**https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/lZOnG?&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_source=bbr&utm_campaign=2023_02_wdgt_home_stathead&utm_content=bttn_see_it_on_stathead>)### Stathead Resourceshttps://info.stathead.com/stathead-basketball-getting-started?&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_source=bbr&utm_campaign=2023_02_wdgt_home_stathead&utm_content=bttn_tips_and_tricks>)https://faq.sports-reference.com/portal/en/newticket?&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_source=bbr&utm_campaign=2023_02_wdgt_home_stathead&utm_content=bttn_contact_us>)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg4p7G6wlcI&list=PLjwfEr7H29D8Wrwt6o0Cor_OOaTScOf3a&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_source=bbr&utm_campaign=2023_02_wdgt_home_stathead&utm_content=bttn_tutorials>)The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on basketball-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.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2025_per_game.html");
// 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.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2025_per_game.html");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const players = [];
document.querySelectorAll("#per_game_stats 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 ppg = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='pts_per_g']")?.textContent?.trim();
const rpg = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='trb_per_g']")?.textContent?.trim();
const apg = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='ast_per_g']")?.textContent?.trim();
if (name) players.push({ name, team, ppg, rpg, apg });
});
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 basketball-reference.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.00051 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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