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🏈 Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper

🚀 Export the most added and dropped NFL fantasy players in seconds. See exactly who the Sleeper community is rushing to pick up or cut, with a live add/drop count behind every name.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 16 fields per record · Up to 200 trending players per run · Covers the full Sleeper NFL player pool (12,000+ profiles)

Fantasy football moves fast, and the waiver wire moves faster. This Actor reads the public Sleeper trending feed for NFL and tells you which players are heating up right now, ranked by how many fantasy managers added or dropped them inside your chosen time window. Every trending player is enriched with their full profile so you get a roster ready record instead of a bare player id.

Coverage. The Actor pulls the live trending add or drop list from Sleeper, then looks up each player in the complete Sleeper NFL profile map. That map carries over 12,000 players, so active starters, rookies, free agents and deep bench names all resolve to a real name, position, team and status.

📋 What the Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper does

• Reads the live Sleeper trending feed for NFL, either most added or most dropped.
• Ranks players by the number of add or drop transactions inside your lookback window.
• Fetches the full Sleeper NFL player profile map once per run and caches it in memory.
• Enriches every trending player with name, position, team, status, injury status, age, years of experience, jersey number and college.
• Returns one clean record per trending player, ready for analysis or automation.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

{
"type":"add",
"lookback_hours":24,
"limit":25
}

{
"type":"drop",
"lookback_hours":48,
"limit":50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: injuryStatus is only present when Sleeper has flagged a player as injured. Healthy players return null for that field by design, which is the same behavior as the source feed.

📊 Output

Real sample records from a live run:

{"playerId":"8800","fullName":"Malik Davis","firstName":"Malik","lastName":"Davis","position":"RB","team":"DAL","status":"Active","injuryStatus":null,"age":27,"yearsExp":4,"number":20,"college":"Florida","trendType":"add","trendCount":28296,"lookbackHours":24,"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T17:03:10.133Z","error":null}

{"playerId":"2078","fullName":"Odell Beckham","firstName":"Odell","lastName":"Beckham","position":"WR","team":"NYG","status":"Active","injuryStatus":null,"age":33,"yearsExp":12,"number":3,"college":"LSU","trendType":"add","trendCount":9009,"lookbackHours":24,"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T17:03:10.133Z","error":null}

{"playerId":"9479","fullName":"Darnell Washington","firstName":"Darnell","lastName":"Washington","position":"TE","team":"PIT","status":"Active","injuryStatus":null,"age":24,"yearsExp":3,"number":80,"college":"Georgia","trendType":"add","trendCount":7235,"lookbackHours":24,"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T17:03:10.133Z","error":null}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• One record per trending player, already enriched with the full profile.
• A real add or drop count behind every name, not just a ranking.
• Adjustable lookback window so you can catch same day spikes or week long trends.
• Pulls from the public Sleeper API, no login or fantasy account required.
• Clean field names that drop straight into a spreadsheet, notebook or bot.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper.
3. Pick add or drop, set your lookback window and limit.
4. Click Start and let the run finish.
5. Open the results and review or connect them to your tool of choice.

💼 Business use cases

Fantasy media and content

League management

Analytics and modeling

Community and bots

🔌 Automating Sleeper Fantasy NFL Trending Players Scraper

Connect runs to the tools you already use with Apify integrations for Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub and Google Drive. Schedule a daily run and push the hottest adds straight into a sheet, a channel or your own database without writing glue code.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research. Study how fantasy managers react to injuries and depth chart changes.
• Personal. Win your home league by catching breakout players a day early.
• Non-profit. Power a free community newsletter for a charity fantasy event.
• Experimentation. Test whether trend counts predict next week production.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant

Paste your results into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Microsoft Copilot and ask for a ranked pickup list, a start or sit take, or a quick summary of the biggest movers.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is this affiliated with Sleeper? No. It is an independent tool that reads the public Sleeper API.

Do I need a Sleeper account? No. The trending and profile endpoints are public and keyless.

What does the count mean? It is the number of add or drop transactions for that player inside your lookback window.

Why is injuryStatus often null? Sleeper only sets an injury tag for flagged players. Healthy players have no tag.

Can I get dropped players too? Yes. Set type to drop.

How far back can the window go? Up to 168 hours, which is one week.

How many players can I pull? Up to 200 trending players per run before enrichment.

Does it cover free agents? Yes. Free agents resolve from the profile map and return a null team.

Is the data live? Each run fetches the current trending feed at that moment.

What sports are covered? This Actor covers NFL fantasy trends.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Results are available through the Apify API and dataset endpoints, so you can pull them into any app, script or workflow that can read a web request.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Sleeper. Only publicly available data collected.