Sports & Fitness

Sports Reference Scraper

Extract comprehensive sports statistics, historical data, and player records from Sports Reference. Powered by spider-browser .

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sports-reference.com target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

sports-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.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();

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

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

POST /fetch/sports-reference.com/

Player nameSeason statsCareer totalsTeamYearAwards

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

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"}'

Python

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())

Node.js

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);

Extraction