# XDA Developers Scraper (`dadhalfdev/xda-developers-scraper`) Actor

Scrape XDA Developers news, reviews, and guides with the full article text. Filter by keyword or paste an article URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dadhalfdev/xda-developers-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Marco Rodrigues](https://apify.com/dadhalfdev) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 📰 XDA Developers Scraper

Want [XDA Developers](https://www.xda-developers.com) 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):**

```json
{
  "max_results": 100
}
```

**Input Example (keyword):**

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

**Output Example:**

```json
{
  "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`). |

# Actor input Schema

## `input_url` (type: `string`):

Paste an XDA article URL. Overrides every filter when set.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Keep articles whose address contains these words (e.g. Home Assistant, Android, mini PC).

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

How many articles to return (1-2000).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "max_results": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Table view of scraped articles using the dataset overview view.

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped articles from the default dataset without view transformation.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dadhalfdev/xda-developers-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dadhalfdev/xda-developers-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call dadhalfdev/xda-developers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dadhalfdev/xda-developers-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/fzY6ZZPDmchxA4ucO/builds/WVZoaT7QoxudhUtpk/openapi.json