NFL Schedule Scraper

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Scrapes every game from the official NFL schedule at nfl.com. Returns preseason, regular season, and postseason games with kickoff times, venues, broadcast networks, and primetime flags — all from the canonical source.

NFL Schedule Scraper Features

• Scrapes preseason, regular season, and postseason games for any season year
• Returns home and away teams with full names and three-letter abbreviations
• Captures kickoff time in both local date and UTC ISO 8601 format
• Identifies the primary broadcast network (CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network)
• Flags primetime games: Sunday Night Football (SNF), Monday Night Football (MNF), Thursday Night Football (TNF)
• Marks international games (London, Munich, Brazil series)
• Includes game status (SCHEDULED, IN_PROGRESS, FINAL) and venue information
• Supports all season types with a single input parameter

Who Uses NFL Schedule Data?

• Fantasy sports developers — sync weekly game schedules, bye weeks, and kickoff times for draft apps and lineup tools
• Sports betting platforms — pull primetime matchups, venue data, and broadcast networks to power odds display
• Media companies — automate weekly schedule content, highlight TNF/MNF/SNF games for programming guides
• Data analysts — build historical season datasets for performance modeling across venues and networks
• App developers — display current-week NFL schedules without parsing the official site manually

How NFL Schedule Scraper Works

1. Provide a season year (e.g. 2026) and optionally a season type (PRE, REG, POST)
2. The scraper enumerates all week URLs for the selected season type
3. Each page's embedded React Query JSON is parsed — no JavaScript execution required
4. Games are extracted and returned with all schedule fields

Input

{
"season":2026,
"seasonType":"REG",
"maxItems":0
}

Output

Each record represents one NFL game.

Sample Output

{
"season":2026,
"week":1,
"game_id":"a8fb0d78-4feb-11f1-abca-2c54536568a9",
"kickoff_local":"2026-09-10",
"kickoff_utc":"2026-09-10T00:20:00Z",
"home_team":"Seattle Seahawks",
"home_team_abbrev":"SEA",
"away_team":"New England Patriots",
"away_team_abbrev":"NE",
"home_score":null,
"away_score":null,
"venue":"Lumen Field",
"venue_city":"Seattle",
"broadcast_network":"NBC",
"status":"SCHEDULED",
"is_thursday_night":false,
"is_monday_night":false,
"is_sunday_night":true,
"is_international":false,
"source":"https://www.nfl.com/schedules/2026/REG1/"
}

Coverage & Season Structure

The NFL 2026 season includes:

• Preseason: Hall of Fame game (week 0) + 4 exhibition weeks (Aug 7 – Aug 28)
• Regular season: 18 weeks, 272 games (Sept 10 – Jan 3)
• Postseason: Wild Card, Divisional, Conference, Pro Bowl, Super Bowl (Jan 2027)

Weeks that haven't been scheduled yet return zero records rather than erroring.

Technical Notes

Data is extracted from the NFL's Next.js server-rendered page. Game records are embedded in the HTML's React hydration payload — fully available without JavaScript execution, making Cheerio sufficient. No browser required, no proxies required.

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