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Speedrun.com Scraper

Extract speedrun leaderboards, world records, runner profiles, and category rules from Speedrun.com. Built on spider-browser .

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target
speedrun.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

speedrun-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.speedrun.com/mc");
await page.content(8000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const runs = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("tr[data-testid], .leaderboard-row").forEach(el => {
    const rank = el.querySelector("td:first-child, .rank")?.textContent?.trim();
    const runner = el.querySelector("a[href*='/users/'], .username")?.textContent?.trim();
    const time = el.querySelector(".time, td:nth-child(3)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const date = el.querySelector(".date, td:last-child")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (runner) runs.push({ rank, runner, time, date });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: runs.length, runs: runs.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

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

One endpoint for speedrun.com.

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

POST /fetch/speedrun.com/
Game titleCategoryRunner nameTimeRankPlatform
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/speedrun.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/speedrun.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/speedrun.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.

Game titleCategoryRunner nameTimeRankPlatformDateVideo link
Data

Game metadata

Extract prices, reviews, system requirements, and ratings from speedrun.com.

Rendering

Store page handling

Handle dynamic storefronts, interactive catalogs, and lazy-loaded content.

Scale

Catalog coverage

Process entire game libraries and mod repositories at scale.

Related

More Gaming & Esports scrapers.

Start

Start scraping speedrun.com.

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