Make: Makezine Maker Project Scraper
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Make: Makezine Maker Project Scraper
Scrape curated maker project metadata from Makezine.com — titles, authors, categories, tags, tools, materials, excerpts and thumbnails from 2600+ DIY projects.
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Extract structured metadata from all curated maker projects published on Makezine.com — the flagship publication for DIY makers, hackers, and craft enthusiasts.
What it does
Crawls all ~2,600 project pages across Makezine's dedicated project sitemaps and extracts per-project metadata: title, author, category, tags, tools list, materials list, excerpt, publish date, thumbnail, and project URL. No subscription required — all metadata is publicly accessible.
Output fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
project_id | string | Stable slug-based project identifier |
title | string | Project title |
author | string | Author name |
slug | string | URL slug |
category | string | Project category (from articleSection, e.g. "Woodworking, Workshop") |
tags | string[] | Keywords / tags |
difficulty | string | Difficulty level (null — not structured on this site) |
time_required | string | Time estimate (null — not structured on this site) |
tools_summary | string[] | List of tools required |
materials_summary | string[] | List of materials/parts required |
excerpt | string | Short project description |
published_at | string | ISO 8601 publish date |
thumbnail_url | string | Project thumbnail image URL |
project_url | string | Canonical project page URL |
Use cases
- Maker content datasets — Train or augment LLMs / recommendation systems on curated DIY project content
- Research — Analyze maker trends, popular tools, category distributions across 15+ years of publications
- Instructables complement — Pair with the Instructables scraper for a curated + UGC maker dataset
- SEO / content analysis — Track which categories and tags dominate Make: magazine's editorial catalog
Input
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems | integer | 10 | Maximum number of project records to scrape. Set to 0 for all ~2,600 projects. |
Notes
- Covers woodworking, electronics, craft, science, photography, food, furniture, and more
- Tools and materials lists may be empty on older projects that predate the structured sidebar format
difficultyandtime_requiredare not present as machine-readable fields on Makezine — both return null- Full corpus run (~2,600 projects) takes approximately 10 minutes at default concurrency
