sports-scores-research

Sports & athletics research

Pull live scoreboards, standings, rosters, player/team stats, sportsbook odds, and endurance-sport routes/clubs across five sports-data sources as normalized JSON from the Crawlora API — no scraping scoreboard widgets or stat pages.

Tool scope and data flow

The optional shell helper is the only command this skill asks to run. It makes GET requests only to the documented, allowlisted Crawlora routes. When invoked, it reads CRAWLORA_API_KEY and sends it as an x-api-key header over HTTPS to api.crawlora.net; it does not send the key to ESPN, SofaScore, Strava, or other sports sources. It briefly writes a mode-600 curl config under TMPDIR and removes it when the command exits. It does not inspect other environment variables, enumerate files, install software, or run with elevated privileges. Queries, public event/player/team identifiers, and requested routes are sent to Crawlora; avoid confidential research targets.

In addition to score/stat endpoints, this skill includes public sports editorial, articles, wikis, quizzes, and video surfaces from Cricinfo and Sportskeeda. Use those sources only when relevant to the user's request. Strava route and club lookups can expose location-sensitive training patterns; do not use them to infer someone's home, routine, or sensitive location history.

When to use this skill

"What's the score / status of right now?"
"Show me 's roster / season stats / standing."
"What's 's stats this season?"
"Give me the boxscore / play-by-play for ."
"Head-to-head history between and ."
For a detailed post-match football performance brief, use football-match-performance-analysis when installed; this skill remains the general scores/stats entry point.
League news, rankings/polls, or betting-odds snapshots (where exposed).
"What are the odds / spread / total for ?" or "what are the futures odds to win ?" (DraftKings Sportsbook).
"Find running/biking/hiking routes in " or "look up this Strava club."

Setup (one-time)

Get a free Crawlora API key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at https://crawlora.net.
Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY in the environment before running the helper.
The helper reads CRAWLORA_API_KEY from the environment and sends requests to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Missing/invalid key → 401.

How it works

ESPN (most sports/leagues) — /espn/scoreboard for today's/a date's games (sport+league params); /espn/teams / /espn/team for team lists and detail; /espn/team-roster for rosters; /espn/standings; /espn/athlete for a player; /espn/game-summary for one game's matchup/odds/boxscore; /espn/news and /espn/rankings (e.g. AP Top 25) round it out.
SofaScore (global soccer-first, many sports) — /sofascore/search to resolve a team/player/event id; /sofascore/live-events for what's live right now; /sofascore/event (+ /event-statistics, /event-lineups, /event-incidents, /event-odds, /event-h2h) for one match in depth; /sofascore/standings, /sofascore/team, /sofascore/team-events, /sofascore/team-players, /sofascore/player.
MLB — /mlb/schedule for games/scores by date; /mlb/game (+ /mlb/game-boxscore, /mlb/game-play-by-play) for one game's detail; /mlb/standings, /mlb/teams, /mlb/team-roster, /mlb/team-stats; /mlb/player + /mlb/player-stats; /mlb/transactions for signings/trades/IL moves; /mlb/league-stats for ranked league leaders.
Strava — /strava/routes (requires sport — one of hiking, road-biking, mountain-biking, trail-running, gravel-biking — plus country+region slugs) to browse routes; /strava/routes/detail (path) for one route; /strava/clubs/{id} for a club; /strava/challenges for current public challenges.
DraftKings Sportsbook — /draftkings/sportsbook/leagues to list sports/leagues (get a league_id), then /draftkings/sportsbook/odds (league_id) for every upcoming event's moneyline/spread/total. /draftkings/sportsbook/live for live events; /draftkings/sportsbook/event (+ /event-markets with subcategory_id) for one event's full market detail; /draftkings/sportsbook/futures (league_id+subcategory_id) for futures markets. /draftkings/sportsbook/teams and /team cover team lookups.

Full endpoint list, methods, and params: reference/endpoints.md.

Calling the API

# ESPN scoreboard + team:
scripts/crawlora.sh /espn/scoreboard sport=basketball league=nba | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /espn/team-roster sport=basketball league=nba team=lal | jq '.'

# SofaScore live + match detail:
scripts/crawlora.sh /sofascore/live-events sport=football | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /sofascore/event id=<event-id> | jq '.'

# MLB:
scripts/crawlora.sh /mlb/schedule date=2026-08-10 | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /mlb/player-stats id=<mlb-id> group=hitting | jq '.'

# Strava:
scripts/crawlora.sh /strava/challenges | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /strava/routes sport=hiking country=<country-slug> region=<region-slug> | jq '.'

# DraftKings Sportsbook odds:
scripts/crawlora.sh /draftkings/sportsbook/leagues | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /draftkings/sportsbook/odds league_id=<league-id> | jq '.'

Use scripts/crawlora.sh for all requests; it keeps the API key out of command-line arguments.

Endpoint reference

See reference/endpoints.md for every ESPN, SofaScore, MLB, Strava, and DraftKings Sportsbook endpoint this skill uses.

Examples

Live game tracker: /espn/scoreboard or /sofascore/live-events polled on an interval to report score changes as they happen.
Pre-game brief: /sofascore/event-h2h (history) + /draftkings/sportsbook/odds or /sofascore/event-odds (market expectation) + both teams' /sofascore/team-events (recent form).
Post-match performance brief: use football-match-performance-analysis when installed for a sourced narrative across SofaScore statistics, incidents, and lineups.
Season stat leaders: /mlb/league-stats or /espn/rankings for top performers, then /mlb/player-stats / /espn/athlete for the detail.
Roster/transaction watch: /mlb/team-roster + /mlb/transactions to track who's been added or dropped this week.
Title-odds tracking: /draftkings/sportsbook/futures for a league's championship/award odds, compared against /espn/rankings for the editorial consensus.

Notes & limits

Credits / pay-on-success: billed only on 2xx; free tier 2,000 credits/mo. Key at https://crawlora.net.
Public data only — public scoreboard/stats pages; odds are informational, not a betting service.
Security: key lives in CRAWLORA_API_KEY only — never hardcode, query-param, or commit it.
ESPN and SofaScore cover many sports/leagues via sport/league params — check reference/endpoints.md for the accepted values before assuming a league is supported.
Live-score endpoints reflect the source's own update cadence — poll rather than assume sub-second freshness.
Strava's country/region are platform-specific slugs, not free-text names — the exact slug format isn't in the tool schema; verify a working value at crawlora.net/docs or the playground if /strava/routes 404s — /strava/challenges needs no params and is a safe starting point.

Cricinfo and Sportskeeda editorial and sports data

Cricinfo supplies public cricket scorecards, commentary, profiles, records, and articles; use its discovery endpoints to identify available tournaments and series. These are editorial/provider snapshots, not an official league record.

Sportskeeda adds news/articles, author and topic coverage, supported football and other sports-data surfaces, plus community and media pages. Inspect the endpoint reference for each route's specific league, section, and identifier requirements; discover options with sportskeeda_football_options before selecting a football view. Editorial depth charts and news reports are not official roster announcements or live score feeds. Do not carry ESPN/SofaScore IDs into Sportskeeda.

scripts/crawlora.sh /sportskeeda/football-options

For FotMob player/football analysis use fotmob-research; for Flashscore or LiveScore match lookups use multi-sport-match-research when installed. The bundled helper here retains only the providers in its own endpoint reference.