devRant Scraper

Free-plan limit: Apify free-plan users receive at most 5 delivered records per run. Paid users may use the Actor’s configured result limit.

Scrapes public devRant feed data from the public devRant JSON endpoint. It supports the default algorithmic feed, recent/top sorting, time ranges, optional public search terms, pagination, deduplication, and structured rant records.

Input

• query: optional public search term.
• sort: algo, recent, or top.
• range: day, week, month, or all.
• maxResults: 1–500, default 25.
• pageSize: 1–50, default 50.
• requestDelayMs: 500–10,000, default 1,000.
• includeLinks: include links returned by devRant, default true.

Each dataset item is one public rant with text, score, timestamp, author summary, tags, vote counts, comments count, links, and source metadata. The run summary is stored in the OUTPUT key-value record.

Pricing and limitations

The primary PPE event is $0.003 per unique rant record delivered. The actor does not access private accounts, perform authentication, vote, post, bypass challenges, or defeat access controls. A source outage or block produces a truthful diagnostic with no fabricated records.

Use the source responsibly and follow devRant terms and applicable laws. This actor is private until the owner reviews permissions, branding, and publication settings.

Local development

npm ci
npm test
npm run validate:schema

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
devrant-record	$0.003	devRant rant record — One unique schema-valid public devRant rant stored in the default dataset.
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run.

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.