Scoreboard tracking
Use ESPN endpoints to turn scoreboard tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Collect ESPN sports scores, teams, standings, rankings, rosters, athletes, game summaries, and news as normalized JSON for sports data workflows.
Extract public ESPN scoreboard, standings, rankings, team, roster, athlete, game-summary, and news data as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
6
Documented params
36
Examples
9
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
9
Methods
GET
Required params
31
Schema refs
9
{
"platform": "ESPN",
"endpoint": "espn-scoreboard",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/espn/scoreboard",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract public ESPN scoreboard, standings, rankings, team, roster, athlete, game-summary, and news data as structured JSON.
Use ESPN endpoints to turn scoreboard tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use ESPN endpoints to turn team and roster enrichment into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use ESPN endpoints to turn sports news monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Each Crawlora platform API is designed around a specific data surface. Instead of exposing a generic fetch endpoint, Crawlora combines endpoint-specific request logic, managed infrastructure, parsing, normalization, billing, and Playground-tested examples.
Request behavior is tuned for the target platform and endpoint type.
Supported endpoints can use managed proxy routing to improve reliability and reduce infrastructure work.
Dynamic pages can be routed through managed browser instances where JavaScript rendering is required.
Challenge pages and unusable upstream responses are detected and surfaced clearly.
Results are returned as documented JSON instead of raw HTML.
Test the same route from Docs and Playground before production integration.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/espn/athlete
/espn/game-summary
/espn/news
/espn/rankings
/espn/scoreboard
/espn/standings
Endpoint catalog
/espn/scoreboardReturns games (scores, schedule, status, and odds when available) for a sport and league from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport. The `seasontype` enum accepts `1` (preseason), `2` (regular season), `3` (postseason), and `4` (offseason).
/espn/game-summaryReturns one game's matchup, betting odds, and boxscore stat totals from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport. Get an `event` id from the scoreboard endpoint.
/espn/standingsReturns league standings grouped by conference/division from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport. The `seasontype` enum accepts `1` (preseason), `2` (regular season), and `3` (postseason).
/espn/rankingsReturns poll rankings (e.g. AP Top 25) for a college league from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. Rankings are only published for college leagues: the `sport` enum accepts `football` and `basketball`, and the `league` enum accepts `college-football`, `mens-college-basketball`, and `womens-college-basketball`.
/espn/teamsReturns the full team list for a sport and league from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport.
/espn/teamReturns one team's detail (identity, colors, record, standing summary) from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport.
/espn/team-rosterReturns a team's roster (players with position, jersey, age, and experience) plus head coach from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport.
/espn/athleteReturns one athlete's bio/overview (name, position, jersey, physicals, current team) from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport.
/espn/newsReturns recent news articles (headline, description, link) for a league from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The `sport` enum accepts `football`, `basketball`, `baseball`, `hockey`, and `soccer`. The `league` enum accepts `nfl`, `college-football`, `nba`, `wnba`, `mens-college-basketball`, `womens-college-basketball`, `mlb`, `nhl`, `eng.1`, `esp.1`, `ita.1`, `ger.1`, `fra.1`, `usa.1`, and `uefa.champions`; it must be valid for the chosen sport.
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How to scrape ESPN
ESPN retired its public developer API and offers no supported replacement, but its apps still run on credential-free public JSON. Crawlora's 9 ESPN endpoints return scoreboards, game summaries, standings, poll rankings, teams, rosters, athletes, and league news across five sports as normalized JSON.
Every endpoint takes a sport — football, basketball, baseball, hockey, or soccer — and a league that must be valid for it, such as nfl, nba, mlb, nhl, or eng.1.
The scoreboard endpoint returns games with scores, schedule, status, and odds when available, narrowed by dates, week, and season type.
Game summary takes an event id; team detail and roster take a team; the teams endpoint lists what is available for that league.
Standings take a season and season type, poll rankings cover college football and college basketball, and the news endpoint returns league headlines.
FAQ
Not any more. ESPN retired its public developer API and offers no supported replacement for third parties. Its apps are backed by credential-free public JSON, which is what Crawlora's ESPN endpoints read and normalize.
The sport enum accepts football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. The league enum accepts nfl, college-football, nba, wnba, mens-college-basketball, womens-college-basketball, mlb, nhl, and the soccer leagues eng.1, esp.1, ita.1, ger.1, fra.1, usa.1, and uefa.champions — and the league must be valid for the sport you pass.
1 is preseason, 2 is regular season, 3 is postseason, and 4 is offseason. The scoreboard endpoint accepts all four; standings accepts 1, 2, and 3.
Yes. The scoreboard endpoint returns current games with score and status for a sport and league, and the game-summary endpoint expands any one of them by event id.