UserVoice Public Suggestions

Publisher: Nock.

Fetch public UserVoice suggestion-forum posts over anonymous HTTP. One company slug or public URL in. Structured posts out.

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or related to UserVoice. It only reads pages and JSON that a public UserVoice portal already serves without a login.

What it does

Give the Actor a public company slug (feedback), a public portal URL (https://feedback.uservoice.com), or a public forum URL (https://feedback.uservoice.com/forums/1-general-feedback). It returns a dataset of public posts with an allowlisted set of fields.

No UserVoice API key. No login. No cookies. No voter identities, author names, emails, or avatars.

Features

• One slug or public UserVoice URL as input (custom domains that redirect from *.uservoice.com are followed)
• Structured posts: title, status, score, commentCount, url, createdAt, boardName, tags
• Public HTTP/JSON only
• Private and login-only portals are skipped
• Pay-per-event ready: one post event per public post written to the default dataset (prices are set later in Apify Console, not in this tree)

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
board	string	yes	—	Company slug, public portal URL, or public forum URL
maxPages	integer	no	5	Number of 20-item pages requested per public forum

Example:

{"board":"feedback","maxPages":1}

Other accepted board values:

• feedback
• https://feedback.uservoice.com
• https://feedback.uservoice.com/forums/1-general-feedback

A local example lives at .actor/example_input.json. The Apify CLI apify run path uses storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json.

Output

Each dataset item has only these fields:

Field	Type	Source
title	string or null	public idea title
status	string or null	public status name, when the portal shows it
score	number or null	public vote count, when the portal shows it
commentCount	number or null	public comment count, when the portal shows it
url	string or null	public idea URL
createdAt	string or null	ISO timestamp when the public list includes it
boardName	string or null	public forum name
tags	string[]	public category names only, when present

The public list JSON wraps HTML and does not include a created timestamp, so createdAt is usually null.

What is collected

• Public post title, status, vote count, comment count, URL, created time when present, forum name, category names

What is not collected

• Author names, author IDs, emails, pictures, avatars
• Voters, voter identities
• Idea descriptions and comment bodies
• Private or login-only portals (HTTP 401/403, SSO redirects, missing accounts)
• Empty forums

How to run on Apify

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console or the Store listing.
2. Set input to a public slug such as feedback, or another public slug/URL.
3. Run. Results land in the default dataset.

Review listing, icon, and monetization before changing Store settings. Users pay compute in Console; event prices are configured there, not in this tree.

How to run locally

Requires Node.js 18+. From this directory, install the listed package.json dependencies, then run scrape.js with a board slug such as feedback and optional --max-pages 1.

You can also pass a public portal URL or a public forum URL. The CLI path prints JSON to stdout and writes the default local dataset under storage/datasets/default.

If the Apify CLI is present, apify run uses storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json.

Public HTTP endpoints

Anonymous GET. No cookies and no API key. Discovered from live public portals, then confirmed over HTTP.

• Portal or forum HTML: GET {origin}/ or GET {origin}/forums/{id}-{slug} (follows redirects, including custom domains)
• Public posts: GET {origin}/forums/{id}.json?filter=hot&page={n} returning {results_count, html}
• Optional category filter: category_id={id} (public /forums/{id}-{slug}/category/{id}-{slug} URLs resolve to this)
• HTML fallback: GET {origin}/forums/{id}?filter=hot&page={n} when the JSON list is unavailable

/api/v1/* JSON is not used. Those routes require a client key.

Missing hosts return 404 Account Not Found or Account Has Been Deleted. Login-gated portals redirect away from the public forum.

Pricing (pay-per-event, not priced in this tree)

The Actor is wired for pay-per-event. Do not invent prices. Configure events in Apify Console when you monetize:

• apify-actor-start: synthetic platform event charged automatically when a run starts. Do not charge this event from code.
• post: one event per public post written to the default dataset via Actor.pushData with event name post.

Set prices, free-event allowances, and whether apify-default-dataset-item is enabled in Console. This repository does not include a price list. Users pay compute in Console.

Limits

• Public HTTP/JSON only. No browser automation, no captcha solving, no login.
• Public forums only. Private or login-gated portals are skipped.
• Pagination is pages of 20 posts. Large forums need a higher maxPages.

FAQ

Is this an official UserVoice tool? No. Nock publishes this Actor independently. It is not affiliated with UserVoice.

Do I need a UserVoice API key? No. The Actor only calls public HTTP endpoints.

Will I get voter or author data? No. Those fields are stripped. Output is an allowlist.

License

UNLICENSED. Actor source for Nock.