MLB Search Results Scraper 🎯⚾

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Features ✨

• Scrapes video search results from MLB.com official website
• Supports custom search queries
• Handles pagination automatically
• Built-in stealth and anti-detection mechanisms
• Random delays and user agent rotation
• Efficient data collection with request interception

Use Cases 🎯

• Sports content analysis
• Baseball video content aggregation
• Player highlights collection
• Sports media research
• Content curation for baseball fans

Input Parameters 📝

Output Format 📊

The actor outputs detailed information about each video result, including:

• Title
• Description
• Video URL
• Thumbnail
• Publication date
• Duration
• View count
• Related metadata

Usage Tips 💡

1. Use specific search terms in the URL for targeted results
2. Adjust maxItems based on your data needs
3. Monitor the run console for real-time progress
4. Results are saved in structured JSON format

Limitations ⚠️

• Respects MLB.com's terms of service
• Rate limiting and random delays implemented
• Maximum recommended items per run: 1000

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
"searchUrls":["https://www.mlb.com/search?q=abbott&filter=video"],
"maxItems":60
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
{
"title":"Buck Farmer against the Pirates",
"url":"https://www.mlb.com/video/andrew-abbott-against-the-pirates",
"lastUpdatedDate":1724436651130,
"contentDate":1724365845126,
"teamCode":null,
"teamFileCode":[],
"teamName":[],
"playerName":[
"Andrew Abbott"
],
"homeTeamCode":"pit",
"awayTeamCode":"cin",
"gameDateTime":"2024-08-23T22:40:00Z",
"gamePk":"745460",
"gameTitle":"2024/08/23 cin@pit",
"taxonomy":[
"data-visualization"
],
"contentType":"video",
"entityId":"4200e904-b772-4320-8133-9ebfb31e57e5",
"culture":"en-us",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/w_250,h_250,c_thumb,g_auto,q_auto,f_jpg/mlb/bs3daoifxlnpg7kpd1ww",
"templateUrl":"https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/bs3daoifxlnpg7kpd1ww",
"playerId":[
671096
],
"description":"Hits against Farmer in their last three matchups",
"blurb":"Buck Farmer against the Pirates",
"duration":"00:00:11",
"objectID":"b693e544-d0bf-4fb0-8e1d-d44efda99106"
},
...
]