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Dev.to Social Scraper

Extract developer articles, community discussions, tags, and engagement metrics from Dev.to platform. Built on spider-browser .

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target
dev.to: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

devto-social-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://dev.to/top/week");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const articles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article, [class*='story']").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h2 a, h3 a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = el.querySelector("a[href*='/@']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const reactions = el.querySelector("[class*='reactions'] span, [class*='counter']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const comments = el.querySelector("a[href*='#comments'], [class*='comments'] span")?.textContent?.trim();
    const tags = [];
    el.querySelectorAll("a[href*='/t/']").forEach(tag => tags.push(tag.textContent?.trim()));
    if (title) articles.push({ title, author, reactions, comments, tags });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for dev.to.

Structured JSON from dev.to with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/dev.to/

Article titleAuthorReactionsCommentsTagsRead time

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/dev.to/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/dev.to/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/dev.to/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Article titleAuthorReactionsCommentsTagsRead timeDateDescription

Stealth

Platform bypass

Residential proxies and fingerprint rotation for dev.to access.

Rendering

SPA rendering

Full JavaScript execution for React-based feeds and dynamic content.

Data

Profile & post data

Extract public profiles, posts, engagement metrics, and connections.

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Start

Start scraping dev.to.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.

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