Dev.to Social Scraper
Extract developer articles, community discussions, tags, and engagement metrics from Dev.to platform. Powered by spider-browser .
Extract data in minutes
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();Structured data endpoint
Extract structured JSON from dev.to with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.
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"}'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())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);Data you can extract
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