Dev.to Scraper - Articles by Tag & Author

Bulk-scrape developer articles and blog posts from Dev.to (Forem) by tag, author username, or the latest feed across all tags. This Dev.to articles scraper paginates the official public Dev.to API and returns clean, flat rows — no login, no API key, no proxy.

🟢 No Dev.to account. No API key. No proxy. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.

What you get

Every article record includes:

• id — Dev.to article ID
• title — article headline
• description — short summary / meta description
• url — canonical link to the article
• author — author display name
• authorUsername — author's Dev.to handle
• tags — list of tags (e.g. javascript, ai, webdev, react, python)
• reactionsCount — total public reactions (hearts, unicorns, bookmarks)
• commentsCount — number of comments
• readingTimeMinutes — estimated reading time
• coverImage — cover image URL
• publishedAt — publish timestamp (ISO)
• scrapedAt — when the row was collected

Flat schema — drop straight into a spreadsheet, BI tool or content pipeline.

Use cases

• Content & trend research — track which dev topics (ai, rust, webdev, devops) are gaining traction by reactions and comments.
• Developer-content newsletters — auto-build a fresh digest of trending articles for a tag every morning.
• DevRel & tool adoption monitoring — follow how often your product, framework or language is written about.
• Author / influence tracking — pull every post from specific writers to study output and engagement.
• LLM / NLP training corpora — assemble large, well-tagged technical-writing datasets for fine-tuning or RAG.

How to use

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Set Tag (e.g. javascript, ai, webdev) to filter by topic — or leave empty for the latest feed across all tags.
3. Optionally set Username to collect a single author's articles.
4. Set Max Articles (0 = pull everything available for your filter).
5. Run the actor and export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML from the Dataset tab.

Combine tag + username to scope an author's posts on a single topic, or schedule the actor for a daily trending-content feed.

FAQ

Do I need a Dev.to account or API key?

No. This scraper uses Dev.to's public Forem REST API, which serves articles anonymously. No login, no token, no proxy required.

Can I scrape all articles for a specific tag?

Yes. Set the Tag field and maxArticles=0 to paginate the entire public feed for that tag. The actor walks pages automatically until the feed is exhausted.

Which export formats are supported?

Every run is stored in an Apify Dataset, which you can download as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or pull via the Apify API.

Can I track trending content over time?

Yes. Schedule the actor (daily or hourly) on a tag of interest; each run captures reactionsCount and commentsCount so you can rank and trend posts by engagement.

Is this a Dev.to API alternative?

Yes. It wraps the public Forem REST API and paginates it for you, so it works as a ready-made Dev.to API alternative — no API key, no token, and no rate-limit plumbing to write yourself.

How do I export Dev.to articles to CSV or JSON?

Run the actor on a tag or username, then open the Dataset tab and download the results as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML or XML — or pull the same Dev.to dataset via the Apify API.

Can I scrape Dev.to without an API key or login?

Yes. This Forem articles scraper reads anonymous public endpoints, so you can scrape Dev.to without an API key, account or proxy.

Changelog

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for Dev.to API alternative, exporting articles to CSV/JSON, and scraping Dev.to without an API key.

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