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Stop scraping websites manually. I built APIs for football and anime data.

Stop scraping websites manually. I built APIs for football and anime data

If you have ever tried scraping websites for data, you already know how painful it gets.

Selectors break. HTML changes. Your app stops working for no clear reason.

I ran into this problem while building projects that needed football news and anime data. Instead of constantly fixing scraping scripts, I decided to build a simple solution.

I created two APIs that return clean structured data so you do not have to deal with parsing HTML.
You will get all the info from my landing pages :)

APIs

Football API

Landing page
https://football-scraper.netlify.app/

Anime API

Landing page

https://anime-scraper.netlify.app/

RapidAPI

https://rapidapi.com/arkasarkar2000/api/aniscraper

What these APIs solve

  • No need to write scraping logic
  • No broken selectors when websites change
  • Clean JSON responses ready to use
  • Faster development for side projects and apps

Current progress

The football API is already at around 1K API calls with a few paying users. That gave me confidence to build and launch the anime API as well.

Who this is for

  • Developers building apps or side projects
  • Anyone who needs quick access to structured data
  • People tired of maintaining scrapers

If you are building something in this space, I would love to hear your feedback.

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