Indie Hackers Scraper - Community Posts & Discussions
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Indie Hackers Scraper - Community Posts & Discussions
Extract posts and discussions from the Indie Hackers community. Filter by post type, search term, minimum upvotes and result count. Returns title, author, upvotes, comment count, tags, creation date and post URL for founder research, content curation and bootstrapping trend analysis.
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Extract posts from Indie Hackers, the community where bootstrapped founders discuss building and growing products. Filter by topic, popularity and search term, and export a structured table of what the independent software community is actually talking about.
What you get per post
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
title | How we got to $10k MRR without ads |
author | the posting account |
upvotes | 142 |
commentsCount | 38 |
tags | ["Growth", "Marketing"] |
createdAt | publication timestamp |
url | link to the post |
Search filters
- type - which feed to read, for example posts
- searchQuery - free text across post titles
- minUpvotes - keep only posts above a popularity threshold
- maxItems - how many posts to save
Example input
{"type": "posts","searchQuery": "pricing","minUpvotes": 20,"maxItems": 100}
Use cases
- Founder and market research - see which problems bootstrapped founders raise most often
- Content curation - build a newsletter or digest from the highest-signal discussions
- Product discovery - find recurring complaints about tools in your category
- Community trend analysis - track how topics such as pricing, churn or AI move through the community over time
- Audience research - study the language indie founders use before writing marketing copy for them
- Competitive listening - catch mentions of a product or category in founder discussions
Why Indie Hackers
Indie Hackers is one of the few places where small software businesses discuss revenue, pricing and churn openly rather than through a PR filter. For anyone selling to or building alongside bootstrapped founders, it is a more candid signal than press coverage or funding news.
Notes
- This actor exports community posts and their engagement metrics. Product revenue pages and founder interview transcripts are a different part of the site and are not included; revenue figures appear only when a poster wrote them into a title or body.
upvotesandcommentsCountare snapshots at scraping time, so repeated runs let you watch a post gain traction.- Tags are author-chosen and therefore inconsistent; treat them as hints, not a taxonomy.