Sports & Fitness

FBref Scraper

Extract detailed football (soccer) statistics, player performance data, and league tables from FBref. Powered by spider-browser .

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fbref.com target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

fbref-scraper.ts

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://fbref.com/en/comps/9/stats/Premier-League-Stats");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const players = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("#stats_standard 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'] a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const goals = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='goals']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const assists = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='assists']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const xg = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='xg']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const minutes = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='minutes']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) players.push({ name, team, goals, assists, xg, minutes });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: players.length, players: players.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from fbref.com with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/fbref.com/

Player nameGoalsAssistsxGTeamMinutes played

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

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

Python

import requests

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

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/fbref.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);

Extraction