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Sports Reference Scraper

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

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target
sports-reference.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/sports-reference.com/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/sports-reference.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://sports-reference.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "player_name": "string",
    "season_stats": "string",
    "career_totals": "string",
    "team": "string",
    "year": "string",
    "awards": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

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();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Player nameSeason statsCareer totalsTeamYearAwards
Data

Live scores & stats

Extract real-time scores, player stats, and standings from sports-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.

Related

More Sports & Fitness scrapers.

Start

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.