Thank you to everyone who shared feedback, ideas, and concerns while speedrun.io was offline. All of it has been read and has shaped what shipped. This post covers the October overhaul, what the archive is and things to look forward to.
Overview
speedrun.io's archive is live again, rebuilt from the ground up as /v1. It's a read-only, non-commercial archive of speedrun.com run, game, and user data, free to query with no authentication and no API key. See the API reference and current status for a list of live features.
speedrun.io remains independent and non-commercial: no ads, no tracking, no donations.
The Archive
The archive spans speedrun.com's public run history from its inception through September 13, 2026, the timestamp of the most recent run in the archive, a few weeks before speedrun.com's revised Terms of Use forced the project offline on September 30. That's the collection cutoff referenced throughout the API, Data, and Terms pages.
Sources & Licensing
Every record in /v1 carries its original speedrun.com ID alongside a permanent speedrun.io ID, plus a meta.sources block that states who the data belongs to and under what license. Two kinds of source sit in that block:
- speedrun.com, as the
authoritysource for the original record, under CC-BY-NC 4.0. - The record's owner, as the
ownersource for the runner who submitted it, who can set their own license (SPDX identifiers likeCC-BY-NC-4.0,CC0-1.0, orMIT) that takes precedence over the existing license for their own data.
Public data defaults to CC-BY-NC 4.0, the license the archive has always operated under, but an owner's own choice governs their records once they've made it. See Your Data, Your Rules for the terms and the API reference for the exact shape of meta.sources in a response.
Validation & Claiming Your Data
The archive is cross-referenced against the public Kaggle mirror of speedrun.com data as an independent check on completeness and accuracy, alongside speedrun.io's own collection. Kaggle will be added to the meta.sources block in the next update.
Validation for runners to claim and manage their own data is coming shortly. This includes confirming it's theirs and setting its license or visibility. Until that form is live, email [email protected] if you want to get ahead of it.
Community & Collaboration
speedrun.io is open to working with other community projects, whether it be tools, sites, or archives built on top of this data. If that's you, reach out on the Discord below or by email.
Also, here's a live sample of my own run history, queried straight from /v1 with a CC0-1.0 license grant. I wanted to post this to show a quick example without needing to review any documentation.
Reach Out
Questions or feedback? Email [email protected] or find me on Discord at thekrynn.