Pro Football Reference Scraper

Extract NFL player stats, passing yards, rushing data, and historical football records from Pro Football Reference. Built on spider-browser .

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target
pro-football-reference.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

pro-football-reference-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://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2025/passing.htm");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const players = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("#passing 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 yards = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='pass_yds']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const tds = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='pass_td']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const rating = el.querySelector("td[data-stat='pass_rating']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) players.push({ name, team, yards, tds, rating });
  });
  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

One endpoint for pro-football-reference.com.

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

POST /fetch/pro-football-reference.com/

Player namePassing yardsTouchdownsRushing yardsTeamPosition

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/pro-football-reference.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/pro-football-reference.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/pro-football-reference.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

Fields you can pull.

Player namePassing yardsTouchdownsRushing yardsTeamPositionGames played

Data

Live scores & stats

Extract real-time scores, player stats, and standings from pro-football-reference.com.

Rendering

Dynamic scoreboards

Full browser rendering for live-updating scoreboards and stat tables.

Scale

League coverage

Scrape across multiple leagues, seasons, and teams concurrently.

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Start

Start scraping pro-football-reference.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.

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