Sports Reference Scraper
Extract comprehensive sports statistics, historical data, and player records from Sports Reference. Built on spider-browser .
- target
- sports-reference.com
- success rate
- 99.9%
- latency
- ~4ms
Extract data in minutes.
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.sports-reference.com/");
const data = await page.extractFields({
siteTitle: "h1",
sportLinks: "#content a",
description: "#meta p",
navigation: "#header nav a",
trending: ".trending a",
recentUpdates: ".updates li",
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();One endpoint for sports-reference.com.
Structured JSON from sports-reference.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.
/fetch/sports-reference.com/ curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/sports-reference.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/sports-reference.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/sports-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);Fields you can pull.
Live scores & stats
Extract real-time scores, player stats, and standings from sports-reference.com.
Dynamic scoreboards
Full browser rendering for live-updating scoreboards and stat tables.
League coverage
Scrape across multiple leagues, seasons, and teams concurrently.
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Start scraping sports-reference.com.
Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.