💼 Indie Hackers Posts Scraper

🚀 Pull every Indie Hackers post URL with section, ID, and decoded title. Discovered via the official sitemap. No login, no API key, no manual scrolling.

The Indie Hackers Posts Scraper discovers every post URL from the official Indie Hackers sitemap and returns slug, section, post ID, decoded title, URL, and scrape timestamp. The sitemap covers more than 47,000 posts across founder stories, startup advice, product launches, and community discussions.

Indie Hackers is the largest community of bootstrapped founders sharing revenue numbers, growth tactics, and lessons learned. The post archive is a primary research surface for product-market-fit research, content marketing inspiration, and founder interviews. This Actor exposes the full post catalog as structured data with optional keyword filtering.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Founders, content marketers, product researchers, journalists, startup analysts	Founder research, content inspiration, trend tracking, audience discovery

📋 What the Indie Hackers Posts Scraper does

Three filtering workflows in a single run:

• 📑 Full sitemap discovery. Walks the Indie Hackers sitemap index across 5 sub-sitemaps and aggregates 47k+ post URLs.
• 🔍 Keyword filter. Substring match on the URL slug to narrow to a topic.
• 🏷️ Section detection. Each post URL embeds a section (creators, starting-up, building, etc.) which is parsed into a separate field.

Each row reports the post URL, slug, section, post ID (16-character suffix on the slug), title decoded from the kebab-case slug, and a scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: Indie Hackers is built on the assumption that founders learn best from each other's open lessons. The post archive is therefore unusually high signal per row: revenue numbers, traction strategies, hiring stories, pricing experiments. Researchers cite IH posts in startup studies. Content marketers mine IH for proven angles. This Actor turns the open archive into structured rows you can filter and analyze.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: postId, scrapedAt, section, slug, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆓 Create a free Apify account. Sign up here and get $5 in free credit.
2. 🔍 Open the Actor. Search for "Indie Hackers Posts" in the Apify Store.
3. ⚙️ Set the keyword filter. Optional. Leave empty for the full archive.
4. ▶️ Click Start. A 100-post run finishes in under 10 seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to first dataset: under five minutes.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more pre-built scrapers and data tools.

Indie Hackers is a registered trademark of Stripe, Inc. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Indie Hackers or Stripe. It reads only the publicly published sitemap.

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