📰 XDA Developers Scraper

Want XDA Developers news, reviews, and guides in a spreadsheet? This scraper makes it easy.

Use structured filters — better for AI agents — or paste an input_url. When input_url is set it overrides the filters.

XDA publishes a large public archive, with hundreds of new articles every month going back several years. Each row includes the full article text. This actor returns up to 2000 rows per run.

💡 Perfect for...

• Editors and researchers: Follow Android, PC, smart-home, and software coverage.
• Dashboards: Collect new stories without paging the site.
• Market research: Track what XDA is publishing about a product or topic.
• Data analysts: Export structured rows with author, section, date, and the full story.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live XDA data.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed article text into retrieval pipelines.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste any XDA article URL, or leave the keyword empty for the latest stories. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Keyword search: Match words that appear in the article address, such as Home Assistant, Android, or mini PC.
• 🌐 Full articles: Author, section, publish date, summary, and the story text.

📦 What's inside the data?

id, url, title, author, section, tags, published, updated, summary, content, image

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste an article URL. Option B: set a keyword, or leave it empty for the latest articles, and set max_results.

Input Example (latest):

{
  "max_results": 100
}

Input Example (keyword):

{
  "query": "Home Assistant",
  "max_results": 50
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "hacs-official-home-assistant-marketplace-cleaned-integrations-forgotten",
  "url": "https://www.xda-developers.com/hacs-official-home-assistant-marketplace-cleaned-integrations-forgotten/",
  "title": "HACS is becoming an official Home Assistant marketplace, so I cleaned out integrations I'd forgotten about",
  "author": "Jasmine Mannan",
  "section": "Smart Home",
  "published": "2026-10-13T19:30:18Z",
  "summary": "Performance and security boost.",
  "content": "Over the months and years of using Home Assistant, you likely use the Home Assistant Community Store like an untamed app store.",
  "image": "https://static0.xdaimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/10/whatsapp-image-2026-10-13-at-16-16-48.jpeg"
}

Output fields:

Field	Description
id	Article address slug.
url	Public article page.
title	Headline.
author	Writer.
section / tags	Main section and extra topics.
published / updated	Publish and update time.
summary	Short description.
content	Full article text.
image	Lead photo.

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	—	One XDA article URL. Overrides every filter.
query	string	No	—	Words to match in the article address. Empty returns the latest articles.
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1–2000).