Startupfast Scraper

🚀 Startupfa.st Scraper

Scrape product listings from startupfa.st — a directory of SaaS tools, developer products, and indie projects.
Select a category (or scrape all 38), optionally enrich each listing with full detail-page data including upvotes, pricing, tech stack, and social links.

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How to use it

1. Register a free account and start using this actor right away.
2. Go to the main page of this actor and configure your input.
3. Find all results in the Output tab and export in any format you need.

⚙️ How it works

• Input: Choose a category slug (e.g. ai, saas, devops) or all to scrape every category. Toggle Scrape Details to fetch full product pages.
• List page: Extracts name, description, website, logo, categories, and comment count for every product in the category.
• Detail page (scrapeDetails only): Fetches each product's page to add upvotes, cover image, pricing model, supported platforms, tech stack, launch date, and social links.
• Deduplication: Products appearing in multiple categories are only scraped once.

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🧾 Example Input

{
  "category": "ai",
  "scrapeDetails": true
}

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📤 Example Output (single product, scrapeDetails enabled)

{
  "slug": "soniox",
  "name": "Soniox",
  "url": "https://www.startupfa.st/projects/soniox",
  "website": "https://soniox.com",
  "logo": "https://utfs.io/f/abc123",
  "description": "One speech AI API for realtime speech-to-text and audio understanding.",
  "categories": ["Artificial Intelligence", "APIs & Integrations"],
  "comments": 3,
  "cover_image": "https://utfs.io/f/xyz456",
  "upvotes": 42,
  "pricing": "freemium",
  "platforms": ["web"],
  "tech_stack": ["NEXTJS", "AI"],
  "launch_date": "Jun 18, 2025",
  "social_links": {
    "Twitter Link": "https://x.com/soniox_ai"
  }
}

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🗂️ Input options

Field	Type	Description
category	string	Category slug or all. Defaults to all.
scrapeDetails	boolean	Whether to fetch each product's detail page. Defaults to false.

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🚀 Use Cases

• SaaS market research and competitive analysis
• Building curated directories or newsletters
• Tracking new product launches by category
• Lead generation for developer tools and B2B SaaS

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🧠 Notes

• Categories available: api, ai, analytics, blockchain, cms, data-science, databases, design-tools, devops, developer-tools, ecommerce, edtech, finance-tech, gaming, graphics, greentech, hardware, healthtech, iot, machine-learning, marketing-tools, mobile-dev, nlp, open-source, platform, productivity, prototyping, robotics, saas, sales-tools, security, serverless, testing-qa, ui-ux, wearables, web-dev, ar-vr.
• social_links is a key-value map (e.g. {"Twitter Link": "https://x.com/..."}) — only populated when the product has social links on its listing page.
• Running with scrapeDetails: false is significantly faster and sufficient for bulk discovery.