# Speedrun.com Scraper - Games, World Records & Runners (`ninhothedev/speedrun-scraper`) Actor

$0.35/1K 🔥 Speedrun.com scraper! Games, world records, runners & times. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Track leaderboards & build speedrun content ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/speedrun-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ninhothedev](https://apify.com/ninhothedev) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.35 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Speedrun.com Scraper - Games, World Records & Runners

Scrape **speedrun.com** without an API key, without login and without a proxy. Search the full game
catalogue, or pull the **current world records** for any game - complete with runner name, country,
finish time in seconds, video URL, run date and platform.

Built on the public speedrun.com API v1, so the data you get is exactly what the leaderboards show:
verified runs, current top placements, real runner handles.

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### What it does

| Mode | What you get |
| --- | --- |
| `games` | Search / browse the speedrun.com game catalogue by name. Returns game ID, abbreviation, release year and date, platform IDs, genres, cover image and the speedrun.com URL. |
| `records` | Current world records for one or more games (by ID **or** abbreviation such as `sm64`). One item per record run: place, runner, runner country, time in seconds and ISO duration, video link, run comment, platform, run date and submission timestamp. |

Every field is nullable, so you never lose an item because one attribute was missing.

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### Input

```json
{
  "mode": "records",
  "gameIds": ["sm64", "celeste"],
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

```json
{
  "mode": "games",
  "queries": ["Super Mario 64", "Celeste"],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `mode` | select | `games` | `games` (catalogue search) or `records` (world records per game). |
| `queries` | array | `["Super Mario 64", "Celeste"]` | Game names to search for in `games` mode. |
| `gameIds` | array | - | Game IDs or URL abbreviations (`sm64`, `celeste`) for `records` mode. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `100` | Hard cap on dataset items (max `1000`). |

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### Output

**Game item**

```json
{
  "type": "game",
  "game_id": "o1y9wo6q",
  "name": "Super Mario 64",
  "abbreviation": "sm64",
  "released": 1996,
  "release_date": "1996-06-23",
  "platforms": ["w89rwelk", "nzelreqp"],
  "genres": [],
  "weblink": "https://www.speedrun.com/sm64",
  "cover_url": "https://www.speedrun.com/static/game/o1y9wo6q/cover",
  "created": null,
  "source": "speedrun",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-28T12:00:00+00:00"
}
```

**Record item**

```json
{
  "type": "record",
  "game_id": "o1y9wo6q",
  "category_id": "wkpoo02r",
  "level_id": null,
  "place": 1,
  "run_id": "z5npldjz",
  "runner": "Suigi",
  "runner_location": "Canada",
  "time_seconds": 5714.0,
  "time_iso": "PT1H35M14S",
  "run_date": "2026-04-26",
  "submitted": "2026-04-29T04:19:36+00:00",
  "video_url": "https://youtu.be/Y1a_q2AZ9pk",
  "comment": "solid",
  "platform": "w89rwelk",
  "weblink": "https://www.speedrun.com/sm64/runs/z5npldjz",
  "source": "speedrun",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-28T12:00:00+00:00"
}
```

Export as **JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or JSONL**, or pull it straight from the Apify API.

***

### Pricing

Roughly **$0.5 per 1,000 items**. The actor runs on 512 MB, needs no proxy and no credentials, so a
typical world-record pull for a handful of games costs a few cents.

***

### Use cases

- **Speedrun tracking** - monitor world records for your favourite games and get alerted when a record falls.
- **Gaming content** - source data for YouTube videos, newsletters and articles about record progression.
- **Leaderboard apps** - power a Discord bot, dashboard or mobile app with live top-3 placements.
- **Datasets** - build historical record datasets for analytics, ML or esports research.

***

### Tips

- Abbreviations from the URL work everywhere a game ID does: `speedrun.com/sm64` -> `sm64`.
- `records` mode returns the top 3 runs per category by default, so one game yields many rows.
- Use `maxItems` to keep runs predictable; the actor stops as soon as the cap is reached.
- `time_seconds` is the numeric primary time - sort on it directly, no duration parsing needed.

***

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***

### Legal

This actor only reads publicly available data from the official speedrun.com API v1. No login, no
private data, no personal data beyond the public runner handles shown on the leaderboards. Respect
speedrun.com's terms of service and rate limits when running at scale.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to scrape. 'games' searches the speedrun.com game catalogue by name (uses the 'queries' field). 'records' pulls current world records for the games listed in 'gameIds', including runner names and times.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Game names (or partial names) to search for in 'games' mode. Each query is paginated until maxItems is reached. Ignored in 'records' mode.

## `gameIds` (type: `array`):

Games to fetch world records for in 'records' mode. Accepts speedrun.com game IDs (e.g. 'o1y9wo6q') as well as URL abbreviations (e.g. 'sm64', 'celeste'). Required when mode is 'records'.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of dataset items to produce across all queries or games. Keeps runs cheap and predictable.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "games",
  "queries": [
    "Super Mario 64",
    "Celeste"
  ],
  "gameIds": [
    "sm64"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "Super Mario 64",
        "Celeste"
    ],
    "gameIds": [
        "sm64"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninhothedev/speedrun-scraper").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 = {
    "queries": [
        "Super Mario 64",
        "Celeste",
    ],
    "gameIds": ["sm64"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/speedrun-scraper").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "Super Mario 64",
    "Celeste"
  ],
  "gameIds": [
    "sm64"
  ]
}' |
apify call ninhothedev/speedrun-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninhothedev/speedrun-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/FzUacCIA8RElOrGiD/builds/uu28iO2rfigo1SBbT/openapi.json