ESPN Scraper

Extract live scores, game schedules, standings, and sports news from ESPN across all major leagues. Built on spider-browser .

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target
espn.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/espn.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/espn.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://espn.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "headline": "string",
    "score": "string",
    "team_names": "string",
    "game_status": "string",
    "standings": "string",
    "stats": "string"
  }
}

# ESPN Scraper

**Headline**: string
**Score**: string
**Team names**: string
**Game status**: string
**Standings**: string
**Stats**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from espn.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

espn-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.espn.com/nba/scoreboard");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  scores: "section [data-testid]",
  headline: "h2 a, h3 a, a[href*='/story/']",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/espn.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/espn.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/espn.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);