Hackathon Finder: Upcoming Hackathons, Webinars & Tech Events

Find upcoming hackathons, workshops and webinars and tech conferences from several public listings in one clean, de-duplicated list: Devfolio, Unstop, Hack Club Hackathons and confs.tech. Filter by keyword or theme, online vs in-person, location, date range, prizes and open registration, then export JSON, CSV or Excel or call it as an API. No login, no API key, pay only per event delivered.

What data can you get?

One record per event, with the same fields whatever the source:

Field	Example	Notes
title	DevNexus 2.0
eventType	hackathon	hackathon, workshop (workshops and webinars) or conference
organiser	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras	when the source publishes it (Unstop)
startDate, endDate	2026-11-27T18:30:00+00:00	ISO 8601; Unstop publishes only the end date
registrationDeadline	2026-11-01T18:30:00+00:00	Devfolio and Unstop
registrationOpen	true	Devfolio and Unstop
mode	online	online, in-person or hybrid
city, state, country, venue	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
prizes	["Winner: INR 20000", "1st Runner Up: INR 12000"]	as listed
totalPrize, prizeCurrency	32000, INR	sum of cash prizes (Unstop)
themes	["FinTech"]	tracks, work areas or conference topics
participantsCount	1233	registrations, where published
teamSizeMin, teamSizeMax	2, 4
description	short plain text	up to 500 characters
url, imageUrl	event page, cover image
source, sourceId, alsoListedOn	devfolio, d957bc…, ["unstop"]	duplicates across sources are merged
scrapedAt	2026-11-01T11:05:00+00:00

Example record:

{
  "title": "DevNexus 2.0",
  "eventType": "hackathon",
  "organiser": null,
  "startDate": "2026-11-27T18:30:00+00:00",
  "endDate": "2026-11-28T18:30:00+00:00",
  "registrationDeadline": "2026-11-01T18:30:00+00:00",
  "registrationOpen": true,
  "mode": "in-person",
  "city": "Kolkata",
  "state": "West Bengal",
  "country": "India",
  "venue": "Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, LB Block, Sector 3, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India",
  "prizes": [],
  "totalPrize": null,
  "prizeCurrency": null,
  "themes": [],
  "participantsCount": 1233,
  "teamSizeMin": 2,
  "teamSizeMax": 4,
  "description": "Code Through the Night. Build Beyond the Fear.",
  "url": "https://devnexus2.devfolio.co/",
  "imageUrl": "https://assets.devfolio.co/hackathons/d957bc2099f945e99edfae0c2972bed9/assets/cover/194.png",
  "source": "devfolio",
  "sourceId": "d957bc2099f945e99edfae0c2972bed9",
  "alsoListedOn": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T11:22:39.725490+00:00"
}

Which sources does it search?

Source	What it adds
Devfolio	hackathons open for applications and upcoming ones, with registration window, team size, prize names, themes
Unstop	hackathons, workshops & webinars and conferences, with organiser, prizes and amounts, registrations, deadlines
Hack Club Hackathons	student-led hackathons worldwide (online, hybrid and in-person)
confs.tech	developer conferences, online and in-person, across 38 topics (open data, MIT licence)

Only sources that allow automated access and need no login are used. Devpost, MLH, Eventbrite, Luma and Meetup are not covered: their terms forbid scraping or commercial reuse, or need an API key. Webinars therefore come only from Unstop's workshops & webinars listing.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event delivered (result), plus a tiny start fee:

Plan	Price per event	Per 1,000 events
Free / Bronze	$0.0020	$2.00
Silver	$0.0018	$1.80
Gold / Platinum / Diamond	$0.0015	$1.50

The actor start costs $0.00005 per run. Set Maximum results (and the run's maximum cost) to cap what you pay; events are delivered soonest first.

How fast is it?

A run reads every selected source at once and finishes in seconds: on Apify (256 MB) a hackathon search over all sources (about 190 upcoming hackathons) took 7 s, and all three event types (420 events delivered) took 8 s. Most of a run is the one-off source download, so large result sets cost almost no extra time.

How to find hackathons

1. Pick the event types (hackathons, workshops & webinars, tech conferences).
2. Optionally add keywords (AI, web3, fintech; a keyword must start a word, and keywords of up to three letters must be the whole word, so AI does not match "campaign"), choose online or in-person, a location (India, Berlin) and a date range, or keep only events with prizes or open registration.
3. Run it and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API. Schedule it daily to catch new listings.

Use Hackathon Finder with AI agents (MCP)

Add it to any MCP client through the Apify MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=bossless/hackathon-finder. An agent can ask for, for example, {"eventTypes": ["hackathon"], "keywords": ["AI"], "mode": "online", "maxResults": 20}.

Use the API from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/bossless~hackathon-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"eventTypes": ["hackathon"], "keywords": ["AI"], "mode": "online", "maxResults": 20}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("bossless/hackathon-finder").call(run_input={
    "eventTypes": ["hackathon", "workshop"],
    "location": "India",
    "onlyRegistrationOpen": True,
    "maxResults": 50,
})
for event in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(event["startDate"], event["title"], event["url"])

Ready-made tasks

• Online AI hackathons: online and hybrid hackathons about AI, ML, LLMs and GenAI.
• Hackathons in India open for registration: Devfolio and Unstop hackathons you can still register for.
• Online tech workshops, webinars and conferences: online workshops & webinars and virtual tech conferences.

FAQ

Is this an official Devfolio, Unstop, Hack Club or confs.tech product? No. This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Devfolio, Unstop, Hack Club or confs.tech. It reads only their public listings.

Why are there no Devpost, MLH, Eventbrite, Luma or Meetup events? Their terms of service forbid automated collection or commercial reuse, or require an API key. This actor only uses sources that allow it.

Does it find webinars? Yes, from Unstop's workshops & webinars listing (choose the "Workshops & webinars" event type). Online tech conferences come from confs.tech and Unstop.

Why is startDate empty for some events? Unstop's public listing gives the end date and the registration window but not the start date. Date filters use the end date for those events.

How are duplicates handled? The same event listed on two sources (same name, dates within a day of each other) is delivered once; alsoListedOn names the other sources.

What if a source is down? The run still delivers events from the other sources and says in its status message which source could not be reached. It fails only when every selected source is unreachable.

Where does the conference data come from? From the open confs.tech conference data (tech-conferences/conference-data), published under the MIT licence.