Indie Hackers Post Scraper

Scrape Indie Hackers for startup posts, revenue milestones, and community discussions. Extract structured data about bootstrapped products and their founders.

What does Indie Hackers Post Scraper do?

This actor scrapes the Indie Hackers community to collect posts about startup journeys, revenue milestones, product launches, and founder advice. It navigates the feed and milestone sections to extract post titles, authors, revenue data, upvotes, comment counts, and direct links. This is ideal for anyone researching bootstrapped startups, analyzing indie business trends, or building a database of founder stories.

Features

• Scrape top posts and revenue milestone posts from Indie Hackers
• Extract post title, author, revenue milestone, upvotes, and comments
• Filter by different feed sections (top, revenue-milestones, new)
• Configurable maximum number of posts to collect
• Automatic fallback data if the site is unavailable
• Clean structured JSON output for easy processing

How to use

1. Go to the actor page on Apify Console
2. Click "Start" to run with default settings (top posts and revenue milestones)
3. Optionally configure which sections to scrape and the maximum post count
4. Download your results from the Dataset tab after the run completes

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
sections	array	Sections to scrape (top, revenue-milestones, new)	["top", "revenue-milestones"]
maxPosts	integer	Maximum number of posts to scrape	100

Output format

Each post in the dataset contains:

{
    "title": "Hit $10K MRR with my SaaS",
    "author": "indie_maker",
    "revenueMilestone": "$10K MRR",
    "productName": "FormBricks",
    "contentText": "Post content excerpt...",
    "upvotes": 156,
    "commentsCount": 34,
    "date": "2026-02-19",
    "postUrl": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/example",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-02-19T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Tips and tricks

• Use the "revenue-milestones" section to find the most successful bootstrapped products
• Schedule weekly runs to track trending topics in the indie hacker community
• Combine with other scrapers to compare startup traction across platforms
• Lower maxPosts for faster test runs during initial setup

About

This actor is maintained by consummate_mandala. For questions, feedback, or feature requests, please open an issue on the actor page.