Indie Hackers Scraper

Extract founder interviews, revenue milestones, product launches, and community discussions from Indie Hackers. Built on spider-browser .

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target
indiehackers.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/indiehackers.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/indiehackers.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://indiehackers.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "post_title": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "upvotes": "string",
    "comments": "string",
    "revenue": "string",
    "product_name": "string",
    "category": "string",
    "date": "string"
  }
}

# Indie Hackers Scraper

**Post title**: string
**Author**: string
**Upvotes**: string
**Comments**: string
**Revenue**: string
**Product name**: string
**Category**: string
**Date**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

indie-hackers-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

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

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.indiehackers.com/");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const posts = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".feed-item, [class*='post-card']").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("a[class*='title'], h3")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = el.querySelector("[class*='author']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const upvotes = el.querySelector("[class*='upvote'] span")?.textContent?.trim();
    const comments = el.querySelector("[class*='comment-count']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) posts.push({ title, author, upvotes, comments });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: posts.length, posts: posts.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

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

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/indiehackers.com/ \
  -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/indiehackers.com/",
    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/indiehackers.com/", {
  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);