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    Sports Data Export: PDF & CSV from PFR, BBRef & FotMob

    This simple browser script uses web scraping and web automation to instantly export football, NFL, and MLB game data to clean PDF and CSV files.

    Combo Sports Export: Turn Any Sports Page Into a Clean PDF or CSV in One Click

    If you've ever found yourself manually copying scores, stats, and game statuses from a sports website into a spreadsheet, you know how tedious it can get. Whether you're tracking NFL results for a fantasy league, pulling MLB box scores for a betting model, or keeping tabs on FotMob fixtures for global football, the process of gathering clean, usable data from a live webpage is usually slow, repetitive, and error-prone.

    Combo Sports Export was built to solve exactly that problem. It's a free, lightweight browser tool that converts messy, cluttered sports pages into polished, ready-to-use PDF reports and CSV spreadsheets — all with a single click. No sign-up, no subscriptions, no complicated installation process. Just add the script, visit a supported site, and export.




    What the Tool Actually Does

    At its core, Combo Sports Export is designed around simplicity. It currently supports three popular sports data sources: Pro Football Reference, Baseball Reference, and FotMob. These sites are go-to resources for fans and analysts, but their layouts aren't always friendly for quickly extracting structured data — tables are dense, formatting varies, and copying information by hand often introduces mistakes.

    With Combo Sports Export running, a single button captures every visible game on the page. That includes final scores, current game status (whether a match is Final, Live, or Scheduled), the winning team or player, and any additional stats that are displayed. The tool reads the page as it appears in your browser, so what you see is what gets exported.

    Two Export Formats, Built for Different Needs

    The tool offers two output formats depending on what you need.

    The PDF export creates a polished, professional-looking report. It includes a cover page, neatly formatted stat boxes summarizing key information, and clean, readable tables of game data. Importantly, the text in these PDFs is fully selectable — meaning you can copy, search, or highlight information directly from the document rather than dealing with a static image or screenshot.

    The CSV export, on the other hand, is built for anyone who wants to work with the data further. It opens cleanly in Excel, Google Sheets, or any spreadsheet software, with columns properly organized so you can sort, filter, calculate, and build your own models without needing to clean up the data first.

    Why It's Useful

    The most obvious benefit is time savings. What might normally take twenty or thirty minutes of manual copying and formatting can now be done in seconds. For people who track games regularly — whether for fantasy sports, betting research, or just personal interest — this adds up to a meaningful amount of saved time over a season.

    Beyond convenience, the tool has appeal for people interested in the technical side of things too. It's a useful, low-stakes example for anyone curious about web scraping or browser automation, since it shows how a script can interact with a webpage's structure to pull out specific pieces of information and reformat them. For hobbyist developers or students learning these concepts, seeing a working example in action can be a helpful starting point for understanding how such tools are built.

    The tool also reflects live page conditions. If you're checking in on a slate of games mid-afternoon, it will show you how many are currently live versus already finished, giving you an accurate snapshot of where things stand at the moment you run the export.

    Who It's For

    Combo Sports Export is aimed at a fairly broad audience. Sports fans who like keeping personal records of game outcomes will find it useful for building their own archives. Bettors and fantasy players who rely on historical data and quick stat checks can use it to speed up research. And anyone interested in data analysis or automation more generally might appreciate it as a practical, real-world tool that demonstrates those concepts in action.

    Getting Started

    Setting up Combo Sports Export takes just a few minutes. First, install the Tampermonkey browser extension, which is available for most major browsers and allows you to run custom scripts on websites you visit. Once Tampermonkey is installed, add the Combo Sports Export script to it. From there, simply navigate to one of the supported sites — Pro Football Reference, Baseball Reference, or FotMob — and you'll see new export options appear on the page.

    When you're ready, click either the CSV or PDF button, and the tool will process the visible games on the page and generate your file automatically.

    A Quick Note Before You Start

    Before installing and running any userscript, it's worth checking the terms of service for the websites you plan to use it on, since some sites have policies around automated data collection. It's also a good idea to review what a script does before installing it,

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