Tapology Scraper for Combat Sports Records, Results and Rankings

A Tapology scraper works on the combat sports database that fighters, managers and promoters use alongside the fans. Tapology calls itself a free resource for MMA, boxing and other combat sports: MMA remains its specialty, and boxing, kickboxing, grappling and Muay Thai now run through the same FightCenter. Results are entered by Tapology's own staff, while fighters, gyms and promoters can claim their pages to update bios and fight cards.

Everything hangs off numeric IDs in the address: /fightcenter/fighters/{id}-{name}, /fightcenter/events/{id}-{event}, /fightcenter/bouts/{id}-{event}-{fighters}, /fightcenter/promotions/1-ultimate-fighting-championship-ufc and /gyms/1-tristar-gym. A bout ID ties two fighter IDs to an event ID, and the event to a promotion ID, so fight cards, records and rankings join without matching names.

The FightCenter filters Tapology upcoming events and results by promotion tier (UFC, Stream/TV, Major Org, Regional), by sport (MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, Grappling, Muay Thai) and by region: US states and groupings such as New England or Kansas and Missouri, Canadian provinces, Brazil North to Brazil Southeast, the Caucasus and Europe Nordic. That grid, down to amateur bouts on local cards, is where Tapology regional MMA coverage goes further than a pure MMA archive. To scrape Tapology well you pick the slice first: a promotion, a sport, a region or a list of fighter IDs.

Tapology rankings are computed, not voted. The Tapology UFC rankings system works on points: each of a fighter's last six UFC bouts earns some, the totals are added up and the division is sorted, with the undisputed champion locked at #1 and no fan votes included. It ranks every eligible fighter on the roster, not just a top 15 (a UFC bout in the last 21 months is required), and revised tables usually release on the Monday after a Saturday event. Public pages show the top of each division; every ranked fighter's position also appears on the fighter page and in fight cards, so a weekly capture builds the history.

Tapology regional rankings go deeper still: men's and women's, every weight class, pro and amateur. The rating weighs wins and losses, the opponent's record at the time, recency (bouts older than five years stop counting) and experience, and each region is recalculated about every four days. Regions nest, so one fighter can hold a Pro Middleweight rank in Nevada, US West and North America at once, given at least two of the last six MMA bouts there. Tapology pound for pound rankings run in every region, Alabama to Asia Central.

That is why scouts, matchmakers and regional promoters buy this data: an unbeaten amateur on local cards shows up in a regional table long before a major promotion signs them. Tapology strength of schedule means a number from 1 to 99 for how hard a fighter's last six UFC fights were, so a model can tell a padded record from a hard one, and betting analysts pair the tables with the odds Tapology keeps on past bouts.