✍️ Dev.to Articles Scraper — Developer Blog Posts by Tag or Author to JSON/CSV

Scrape developer articles from Dev.to straight from its official public API — pull posts by tag or author with full metadata and paginate the entire feed. This Dev.to scraper extracts title, description, tags, reactions, comments and reading time, and exports everything to JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, no API key, no blocking.

Dev.to publishes thousands of new technical articles every week. Built for scheduled, recurring use, this Actor keeps you supplied with the latest developer content — perfect for trend research, newsletters, dev-relations monitoring and building structured content datasets.

✨ What this Actor does / Key features

• Official Dev.to API — fast, reliable and fully paginated; no fragile HTML parsing.
• Filter by tag — pull articles for a specific topic such as javascript, ai, webdev, python or react.
• Filter by author — collect all articles from a specific Dev.to writer by username.
• Rich metadata per article — title, description, URL, author name and username, tags, reactions count, comments count, reading time, cover image and publish date.
• Full pagination — crawls the entire feed for your filter, not just the first page.
• Adjustable run size — set maxArticles to cap the run, or 0 to pull every available article.
• No API key, no login — pure public-API access, no authentication required.
• Structured, export-ready output — flat JSON records, ideal for JSON, CSV, Excel, databases or BI tools.

🔍 Input

Field	Type	Description
tag	string	Filter by tag, e.g. javascript, ai, webdev. Leave empty for the latest articles across all tags.
username	string	Filter to a specific author's articles by their Dev.to username. Optional.
maxArticles	integer	Maximum number of articles to save. 0 = all available. Minimum 0.

🚀 Example input

{
  "tag": "javascript",
  "maxArticles": 0
}

Collect all articles from a specific author:

{
  "username": "ben",
  "maxArticles": 200
}

📦 Output

Each item in the dataset is one Dev.to article. Output is flat, structured JSON — easy to export to CSV or Excel or push into a database.

Field	Description
id	Unique Dev.to article ID.
title	Article title.
description	Short article description / summary.
url	Full URL of the article on Dev.to.
author	Display name of the author.
authorUsername	Dev.to username of the author.
tags	Array of tags attached to the article.
commentsCount	Number of comments on the article.
reactionsCount	Total reactions (likes, unicorns, bookmarks, etc.).
readingTimeMinutes	Estimated reading time in minutes.
coverImage	URL of the article's cover image.
publishedAt	Publication date/time of the article.
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of when the record was scraped.

Example output record

{
  "id": 1234567,
  "title": "10 JavaScript Tricks You Should Know",
  "description": "A practical roundup of modern JS techniques.",
  "url": "https://dev.to/example/10-javascript-tricks-you-should-know",
  "author": "Jane Developer",
  "authorUsername": "janedev",
  "tags": ["javascript", "webdev", "beginners"],
  "commentsCount": 24,
  "reactionsCount": 312,
  "readingTimeMinutes": 6,
  "coverImage": "https://res.cloudinary.com/.../cover.png",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-10T09:00:00Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-15T08:30:00.000Z"
}

💡 Use cases

• Content & trend research — track what topics the developer community is writing about and which posts gain traction.
• Newsletters & content aggregators — keep a curated tech-content feed always fresh and automated.
• Marketing & developer relations — monitor mentions of your product, framework or programming language.
• Datasets & NLP — build a structured corpus of developer articles for analysis or model training.
• Competitive analysis — see what content competitors and influential authors are publishing and how it performs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a Dev.to API key or login? No. The Actor uses Dev.to's public API and requires no API key, account or login.

Is it legal to scrape Dev.to? The Actor reads publicly available articles via Dev.to's official public API, which is intended for programmatic access. You are responsible for complying with Dev.to's terms of service and for how you use the data.

How many articles can I get? The Actor paginates the entire feed for your chosen filter. Set maxArticles to 0 for everything available, or a smaller number for a faster, capped run.

Can I filter by topic or author? Yes. Use tag to filter by topic (e.g. javascript, ai, webdev) and username to collect a specific author's articles. You can use either, or leave both empty for the latest across all tags.

Does the output include engagement metrics? Yes — every record includes reactionsCount, commentsCount and readingTimeMinutes, so you can rank or analyze articles by popularity.

How fast is it and how much does it cost? It runs as fast, plain API requests and completes quickly. Cost depends only on the small amount of Apify compute used; there are no third-party fees.

Can I schedule it and what output formats are supported? Yes — schedule it on Apify to run daily for a continuously updated feed. Results export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or via the Apify API.

⏰ Scheduling & integration

Schedule this Actor on Apify to run daily for a continuously updated developer-articles feed. Export results to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull them through the Apify API, or connect the dataset to Google Sheets, webhooks or your newsletter and content pipelines.