# ESPN Video Downloader 🎥 (`easyapi/espn-video-downloader`) Actor

Extract and download ESPN videos with ease! This powerful Actor fetches video metadata, direct download links, and supports multiple quality options. Perfect for sports content aggregation, research, and archival purposes. 🎥 🏆

- **URL**: https://apify.com/easyapi/espn-video-downloader.md
- **Developed by:** [EasyApi](https://apify.com/easyapi) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos, Integrations
- **Stats:** 50 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## ESPN Video Downloader 🎥

### 🎯 Features

- 📥 Downloads videos from ESPN website
- 🎬 Supports multiple video qualities (360p, 720p)
- 📊 Extracts comprehensive video metadata
- ⚡ Fast and efficient processing
- 🔄 Handles multiple URLs in batch
- 💾 Structured JSON output for each video

### 📋 Use Cases

- Sports content aggregation
- Video content analysis
- Sports highlights collection
- Research and archival purposes
- Content curation

### 🔍 Output Format

The actor provides detailed information for each video, including:

- Video title
- Source platform
- Thumbnail URL
- Video duration
- Available quality options
- Direct download URLs
- Video type and format

### 💡 Tips

- Provide valid ESPN video URLs
- For best results, use direct video page links
- Respect ESPN's terms of service and content usage rights
- Allow sufficient run time for processing multiple URLs

#### Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

```json
{
    "links": [
        "https://www.espn.in/video/clip/_/id/40510754"
    ]
}
```

#### 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.

```json
[
    {
        "url": "https://www.espn.in/video/clip/_/id/40510754",
        "result": {
            "title": "Gomez: Brazil-Uruguay one of worst matches of 2024 Copa América - ESPN Video",
            "source": "espn",
            "thumbnail": "https://media.video-cdn.espn.com/motion/2024/0706/dm_240706_Uruguay_Brazil_analysis/dm_240706_Uruguay_Brazil_analysis.jpg",
            "duration": 75,
            "medias": [
                {
                    "url": "https://media.video-cdn.espn.com/motion/2024/0706/dm_240706_Uruguay_Brazil_analysis/dm_240706_Uruguay_Brazil_analysis_360p30_1464k.mp4",
                    "quality": "360p",
                    "extension": "mp4",
                    "type": "video"
                },
                {
                    "url": "https://media.video-cdn.espn.com/motion/2024/0706/dm_240706_Uruguay_Brazil_analysis/dm_240706_Uruguay_Brazil_analysis_720p30_2896k.mp4",
                    "quality": "720p",
                    "extension": "mp4",
                    "type": "video"
                }
            ],
            "type": "multiple",
            "error": false,
            "time_end": 38
        }
    }
]
```

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# Actor input Schema

## `links` (type: `array`):

List of ESPN video URLs to process

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optionally, use Apify Proxy or custom HTTP proxy to avoid IP address-based blocking.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "links": [
    "https://www.espn.in/video/clip/_/id/40510754"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "links": [
        "https://www.espn.in/video/clip/_/id/40510754"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("easyapi/espn-video-downloader").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "links": ["https://www.espn.in/video/clip/_/id/40510754"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("easyapi/espn-video-downloader").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "links": [
    "https://www.espn.in/video/clip/_/id/40510754"
  ]
}' |
apify call easyapi/espn-video-downloader --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,easyapi/espn-video-downloader"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/TL8N1OvekRFaHYbFU/builds/BLkvFERhYf02pL8v9/openapi.json