SourceForge Scraper

Extract open-source project listings, download counts, user reviews, and comparison charts from SourceForge. Built on spider-browser .

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target
sourceforge.net: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/sourceforge.net/

return_format

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

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://sourceforge.net/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "project_name": "string",
    "rating": "string",
    "downloads": "string",
    "review_count": "string",
    "category": "string",
    "license": "string",
    "last_updated": "string",
    "platform": "string"
  }
}

# SourceForge Scraper

**Project name**: string
**Rating**: string
**Downloads**: string
**Review count**: string
**Category**: string
**License**: string
**Last updated**: string
**Platform**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

sourceforge-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://sourceforge.net/directory/");

const data = await page.extractFields({
  projectName: ".project-info h3 a",
  description: ".project-info .description",
  rating: ".project-info .star-rating",
  downloads: ".project-info .download-count",
  lastUpdated: ".project-info .updated",
  category: ".project-info .category",
});

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

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