sports-scores-research

Sports & athletics research

Pull live scoreboards, standings, rosters, player/team stats, and endurance- sport routes/clubs across four sports-data sources as normalized JSON from the Crawlora API — no scraping scoreboard widgets or stat pages.

When to use this skill

• "What's the score / status of right now?"
• "Show me 's roster / season stats / standing."
• "What's 's stats this season?"
• "Give me the boxscore / play-by-play for ."
• "Head-to-head history between and ."
• League news, rankings/polls, or betting-odds snapshots (where exposed).
• "Find running/biking/hiking routes in " or "look up this Strava club."

Setup (one-time)

• Get a free Crawlora API key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at https://crawlora.net.
• export CRAWLORA_API_KEY=sk_your_key_here
• All requests: x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY against https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Missing/invalid key → 401.

How it works

1. ESPN (most sports/leagues) — /espn/scoreboard for today's/a date's games (sport+league params); /espn/teams / /espn/team for team lists and detail; /espn/team-roster for rosters; /espn/standings; /espn/athlete for a player; /espn/game-summary for one game's matchup/odds/boxscore; /espn/news and /espn/rankings (e.g. AP Top 25) round it out.
2. SofaScore (global soccer-first, many sports) — /sofascore/search to resolve a team/player/event id; /sofascore/live-events for what's live right now; /sofascore/event (+ /event-statistics, /event-lineups, /event-incidents, /event-odds, /event-h2h) for one match in depth; /sofascore/standings, /sofascore/team, /sofascore/team-events, /sofascore/team-players, /sofascore/player.
3. MLB — /mlb/schedule for games/scores by date; /mlb/game (+ /mlb/game-boxscore, /mlb/game-play-by-play) for one game's detail; /mlb/standings, /mlb/teams, /mlb/team-roster, /mlb/team-stats; /mlb/player + /mlb/player-stats; /mlb/transactions for signings/trades/IL moves; /mlb/league-stats for ranked league leaders.
4. Strava — /strava/routes (requires sport — one of hiking, road-biking, mountain-biking, trail-running, gravel-biking — plus country+region slugs) to browse routes; /strava/routes/detail (path) for one route; /strava/clubs/{id} for a club; /strava/challenges for current public challenges.

Full endpoint list, methods, and params: reference/endpoints.md.

Calling the API

# ESPN scoreboard + team:
scripts/crawlora.sh /espn/scoreboard sport=basketball league=nba | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /espn/team-roster sport=basketball league=nba team=lal | jq '.'

# SofaScore live + match detail:
scripts/crawlora.sh /sofascore/live-events sport=football | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /sofascore/event id= | jq '.'

# MLB:
scripts/crawlora.sh /mlb/schedule date=2026-08-10 | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /mlb/player-stats id= group=hitting | jq '.'

# Strava:
scripts/crawlora.sh /strava/challenges | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /strava/routes sport=hiking country= region= | jq '.'

Raw curl fallback:

curl -fsS -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/espn/standings?sport=football&league=nfl" | jq '.'

Endpoint reference

See reference/endpoints.md for every ESPN, SofaScore, MLB, and Strava endpoint this skill uses.

Examples

• Live game tracker: /espn/scoreboard or /sofascore/live-events polled on an interval to report score changes as they happen.
• Pre-game brief: /sofascore/event-h2h (history) + /sofascore/event-odds (market expectation) + both teams' /sofascore/team-events (recent form).
• Season stat leaders: /mlb/league-stats or /espn/rankings for top performers, then /mlb/player-stats / /espn/athlete for the detail.
• Roster/transaction watch: /mlb/team-roster + /mlb/transactions to track who's been added or dropped this week.

Notes & limits

• Credits / pay-on-success: billed only on 2xx; free tier 2,000 credits/mo. Key at https://crawlora.net.
• Public data only — public scoreboard/stats pages; odds are informational, not a betting service.
• Security: key lives in CRAWLORA_API_KEY only — never hardcode, query-param, or commit it.
• ESPN and SofaScore cover many sports/leagues via sport/league params — check reference/endpoints.md for the accepted values before assuming a league is supported.
• Live-score endpoints reflect the source's own update cadence — poll rather than assume sub-second freshness.
• Strava's country/region are platform-specific slugs, not free-text names — the exact slug format isn't in the tool schema; verify a working value at crawlora.net/docs or the playground if /strava/routes 404s — /strava/challenges needs no params and is a safe starting point.