Uneed Scraper

🧭 Uneed scraper for product and launch data

Uneed Scraper collects public product data from Uneed so you can turn launches, categories, tags, alternatives pages, or the current daily ladder into a clean Apify dataset. Use it for lead lists, startup research, competitor research, and market maps without opening every Uneed product page by hand.

Start with the default daily ladder run, or paste specific Uneed product, category, tag, alternatives, or sitemap URLs. Each saved product row keeps source-backed fields such as product ID, slug, website URL, descriptions, category, tags, pricing label, vote count, listing status, social links, media URLs, deals, contacts, optional website emails, and optional launch engagement.

• ✅ Daily ladder by default - leave Uneed targets empty to collect the current Uneed daily ladder.
• ✅ Focused Uneed targets - add product, category, tag, alternatives, or sitemap URLs when you already know the pages to scrape.
• ✅ Rich product rows - get product identity, website links, descriptions, tags, category, pricing, media, deals, and listing status in one dataset.
• ✅ Contact and audience context - collect Uneed-native contact/social links, optional website emails, and optional public upvoters, comments, and profiles for launch pages.

🚀 What this Actor does

Uneed is a directory for startup tools and product launches. This Actor reads public Uneed pages and emits one row per successful product or launch result. It can scrape:

• The current Uneed daily ladder when no target URL is provided.
• Direct product or launch URLs, such as https://www.uneed.best/tool/creem.
• Tag pages, such as https://www.uneed.best/tags/ai.
• Category pages, alternatives pages, and https://www.uneed.best/sitemap.xml.

The Actor does not need your Uneed login, cookies, browser extension, or Uneed API key. It returns source-hosted logo and media URLs when Uneed exposes them, but it does not download or mirror those assets into Apify storage.

📦 Data you can get

Each product row can include:

• Product identity: productId, slug, name, sourceUrl, and websiteUrl.
• Product content: tagline, descriptionHtml, category, and tags.
• Listing facts: pricing, voteCount, isPromoted, isPremium, isDofollow, and isOnSale.
• Outreach paths: contacts, socialLinks, and optional websiteEmails.
• Visual and offer data: logoUrl, mediaUrls, and deals.
• Optional launch engagement: upvoters, comments, and profiles.

Missing source fields stay empty as null or []. The Actor does not invent emails, social links, prices, categories, votes, comments, or profile data.

🎯 Common use cases

• Build a daily shortlist of new Uneed launches.
• Research products in one Uneed category, tag, or alternatives page.
• Find startup websites and public contact paths for outreach.
• Track public pricing labels, tags, categories, votes, and media for market maps.
• Collect public launch supporters and comments for direct product URLs when launch engagement is enabled.
• Export Uneed product rows to CSV, JSON, Excel, or an API workflow from the Apify dataset.

🛠️ How to run it

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Leave Uneed targets empty for the current daily ladder, or add Uneed product, category, tag, alternatives, or sitemap URLs.
3. Keep Product limit at 45 for a representative first run. Use 0 only when you want the full matched set.
4. Keep Include promoted listings? off if you want organic products only.
5. Keep Find website emails? on if you want the Actor to visit product websites for public contact emails.
6. Turn on Include launch engagement? only when you want public upvoters, comments, and profile details for direct product targets.
7. Run the Actor and review the dataset in the run, or use Apify exports, API, schedules, and integrations.

⚙️ Input

{
	"startUrls": [
		{
			"url": "https://www.uneed.best/tags/ai"
		}
	],
	"maxNbItemsToScrape": 45,
	"shouldIncludePromotedListings": false,
	"shouldScrapeEmails": true,
	"shouldScrapeLaunchEngagement": false
}

Field	What it does
startUrls	Uneed product, category, tag, alternatives, or sitemap URLs. Leave empty for the current daily ladder.
maxNbItemsToScrape	Maximum products to save across all discovered targets. Use 0 for the full matched set.
shouldIncludePromotedListings	Include paid or promoted Uneed listings with organic products.
shouldScrapeEmails	Visit each product website and collect public emails when available.
shouldScrapeLaunchEngagement	Collect public upvoters, comments, and profiles for direct Uneed product targets.

📊 Output example

{
	"productId": 14609,
	"slug": "creem",
	"name": "Creem",
	"websiteUrl": "https://creem.io",
	"sourceUrl": "https://www.uneed.best/tags/ai",
	"tagline": "Smooth payments for SaaS and Indie Hackers that don't break the bank",
	"descriptionHtml": "<h2>What is Creem?</h2><p>Creem is the all-in-one payment platform for software companies.</p>",
	"category": {
		"name": "Money",
		"slug": "money"
	},
	"tags": [
		{
			"name": "E-Commerce",
			"slug": "e-commerce"
		}
	],
	"pricing": "Free",
	"voteCount": 14616,
	"isPromoted": false,
	"isPremium": true,
	"isDofollow": true,
	"isOnSale": false,
	"contacts": [
		{
			"name": "armitage-labs",
			"profileUrl": "https://www.uneed.best/profile/armitage-labs",
			"links": ["https://x.com/creem_io"]
		}
	],
	"socialLinks": {
		"email": null,
		"twitter": "https://x.com/creem_io",
		"linkedin": null,
		"github": "https://github.com/armitage-labs",
		"instagram": null,
		"facebook": null,
		"youtube": null,
		"bluesky": null
	},
	"websiteEmails": ["hello@creem.io"],
	"logoUrl": "https://apcdouatoejrvwoqevfc.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/logos/logos/creem_20260515110947.png",
	"mediaUrls": [
		"https://backend.uneed.best/storage/v1/object/public/product_medias/creem/14609/1778855300937-2.webp"
	],
	"deals": [],
	"upvoters": [],
	"comments": [],
	"profiles": []
}

See the Output tab for the full schema.

💳 Pricing

This Actor charges one uneed-product event for each saved product or launch row. Optional website emails and launch engagement are included in the same saved product row when enabled. There is no configured Actor-start charge in the local pricing artifact.

For current tier prices, open the Pricing tab on the Apify Store page.

⚠️ Limits and caveats

• Launch engagement is best for direct product URLs. Directory pages can discover products, but engagement data is only collected when the source exposes it for the product row.
• Website email discovery depends on each product website. Some sites do not publish emails, block crawlers, or only expose contact forms.
• Promoted listing filtering depends on Uneed's public promoted feed. If promoted status cannot be checked, the run stops rather than mixing promoted rows into an organic-only run.
• Source-hosted logo and media URLs can change or expire outside this Actor.
• The Actor emits successful product rows only. Skipped, failed, private, removed, unsupported, and diagnostic outcomes stay in logs.

❓ FAQ

Can I scrape the current Uneed daily ladder?

Yes. Leave Uneed targets empty and the Actor collects the current daily ladder.

Can I scrape a Uneed tag, category, alternatives page, or sitemap?

Yes. Add the Uneed URL to Uneed targets and set Product limit to control how many discovered products are saved.

Does this Actor need a Uneed account?

No. It works with public Uneed pages and does not ask for Uneed credentials, cookies, or a source API key.

Why are websiteEmails, upvoters, comments, or profiles empty?

Those fields depend on optional settings and public source data. They stay empty when you leave the option off or when Uneed or the product website does not expose the data.

📝 Changelog

• 0.1: Added broad Uneed product scraping for the daily ladder, product URLs, categories, tags, alternatives pages, and sitemap discovery. Added richer product fields, website email enrichment, promoted listing awareness, and optional public launch engagement data.

🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests, file a ticket and I'll fix or implement it in less than 24h 🫡

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Made with ❤️ by Maxime Dupré