Yahoo Sports Scraper

Extract sports news, live scores, fantasy league data, and player statistics from Yahoo Sports.

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target
sports.yahoo.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/sports.yahoo.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/sports.yahoo.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "headline": "string",
    "score": "string",
    "team_name": "string",
    "player_stats": "string",
    "fantasy_points": "string",
    "game_status": "string"
  }
}

# Yahoo Sports Scraper

**Headline**: string
**Score**: string
**Team name**: string
**Player stats**: string
**Fantasy points**: string
**Game status**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from sports.yahoo.com with a single POST. Call it with no selectors and the model names the fields, or pass your own CSS to skip the AI.

yahoo-sports-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/scoreboard/");

// 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://sports.yahoo.com/nba/scoreboard/");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  awayTeam: "[class*='away'] [class*='team-name']",
  homeTeam: "[class*='home'] [class*='team-name']",
  awayScore: "[class*='away'] [class*='score']",
  homeScore: "[class*='home'] [class*='score']",
  gameStatus: "[class*='game-status']",
  headline: "[class*='topstory'] h3",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/sports.yahoo.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/sports.yahoo.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/sports.yahoo.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);