Dev.to Top Articles Scraper

Pulls the top articles from Dev.to over a configurable time window. Returns article metadata plus author handle, profile URL, Twitter, GitHub, and website. Filter by tag. Pairs with the AI Sales Personalizer for outreach to influential developer authors.

What you get back per article

Field	Description
id	Dev.to article ID
title	Article title
description	First-paragraph summary
url	Article URL
author	Dev.to username
author_name	Display name
author_url	Author's Dev.to profile
author_website	Their personal site (if set)
author_twitter	Twitter handle (if set)
author_github	GitHub handle (if set)
tags	Comma-separated Dev.to tags
reactions	Public reactions count
comments	Comments count
reading_time_minutes	Estimated reading time
published_at	Publish timestamp

Pricing

• Preview mode: $0 (5 articles, no charges)
• Standard: $0.005 per article returned

Typical run for "AI tag, top 7 days" = 30 to 80 articles = $0.15 to $0.40.

Use cases

Devtools companies use Dev.to top articles to identify influential authors writing about their category. An author who writes a top-ranking "review of X" article is the ideal partnership / sponsorship / customer target.

Recruiters at AI / devtools companies use the author lists for sourcing candidates with proven technical writing skills and audience.

Content marketers monitor top articles to identify the topics gaining traction in their category, then write competing/complementary content.

Community managers identify their target audience's most-read authors to invite as guest speakers, podcast guests, or partner content collaborators.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free with preview_mode ticked.
2. Set top_days: 1 (today), 7 (this week), 30 (this month).
3. (Optional) Set tag: 'ai', 'webdev', 'javascript', 'rust', 'python', etc.
4. (Optional) min_reactions: 10 default, 50+ for popular only.
5. Hit Start.

Pipeline: combine with AI Sales Personalizer

1. Run this with tag: ai, top_days: 30, min_reactions: 50. Get back 50 to 200 authors of trending AI articles.
2. Take the author_website column (the authors who set a personal site). Typically 30 to 50 percent of authors.
3. Feed those URLs into AI Sales Personalizer.
4. Get back personalized openers referencing the author's own site and content.

Total monthly cost: $1 (Dev.to scrape) + ~$10 (50 personalizations at $0.15) = $11/month for fresh influencer-tier developer prospects with personalized first touches.

Sister actors

• AI Sales Personalizer: turns author URLs into personalized cold openers
• GitHub Trending Scraper: complementary OSS-maintainer leads
• HN Who Is Hiring Scraper: complementary hiring signals
• Show HN Lead Scraper: complementary product-launch leads
• ProductHunt Daily Launches Scraper: complementary product-launch leads
• Greenhouse Public Jobs Scraper: complementary per-company hiring monitoring

Pairing the full seven-actor portfolio gives the most complete developer-audience B2B intelligence available on Apify Store for under $20/month.

What this does NOT do

• Does not pull article body content (the url is provided so you can fetch separately if needed)
• Does not authenticate with Dev.to user accounts
• Does not extract email addresses (use Hunter, Clearbit, or your own enrichment)

Tips

1. Run weekly with tag: ai, top_days: 7 to maintain a fresh pipeline of trending developer authors.
2. Combine multiple tags via separate runs since the API accepts one tag at a time.
3. Filter by author_website not null in your downstream tools, since those authors have a clear outreach surface.

FAQ

Q: Is this allowed by Dev.to? Yes. The Dev.to API is publicly documented and free to use. They explicitly support article listing endpoints without auth.

Q: How current is the data? Dev.to's top rankings refresh hourly. The data is real-time enough for most use cases.

Tags

devto developer-content b2b lead-generation devrel content-marketing recruiting developer-influencers

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Built by Emily Ward, Sydney. Seventh actor in the B2B intel portfolio.

Integrations

This actor works out of the box with every Apify-supported integration:

• API: call via Apify API or any official SDK (Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET). Returns a clean dataset URL.
• Schedule: set a daily, weekly, or custom cron cadence in Apify Console. Combine with notification for fresh feeds.
• Webhooks: wire ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED to Slack, Discord, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, or any HTTPS endpoint.
• MCP: this actor is discoverable through Apify's hosted MCP server at mcp.apify.com for Claude, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and other MCP clients.
• n8n / Make / Zapier: native HTTP-Request integration. Trigger the actor on schedule, pipe results to Google Sheets, Airtable, your CRM, or any database.

Try it free

Every Apify user gets $5/month in free platform credits (around 250 events at this actor's per-event price). Run preview mode first to confirm output shape before scaling.

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What's New

• 2026-06-03: Metadata, categories, and SEO refreshed. Latest version live on Apify Store.

Last Updated

2026-06-03