Pro Football Reference Scraper
Extract NFL player stats, passing yards, rushing data, and historical football records from Pro Football Reference.
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://pro-football-reference.com", "return_format": "markdown"}'Returns pro-football-reference.com as markdown, live. Get a key →
We have not stored a capture of pro-football-reference.com, so there is nothing real to show here yet. Run the call beside this and you get the live page back as markdown.
Run it, then keep going.
The keyless call is rate limited to a trickle. A key lifts it and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on pro-football-reference.com. Sign up and a free balance lands on your account. No card required to test.
- Free balance on signup, no card
- Failed requests cost $0
- robots.txt respected by default
The same call, in code.
The keyless call above returns markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on pro-football-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.pro-football-reference.com/years/2025/passing.htm");
// 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.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();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
What pro-football-reference.com costs to scrape.
Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so most pages land at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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Start scraping pro-football-reference.com.
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