Unstop Scraper

Export Unstop hackathons, competitions, quizzes, scholarships, internships and jobs — organiser, prize pool, deadlines, team size, eligibility, skills, salary, registrations and the full description.

What you get

Unstop, formerly Dare2Compete, is India's largest platform for student competitions, hackathons and campus hiring. This Actor exports any of its sections as structured rows, with or without a search term, for open, closed or all opportunities.

Each row carries the full opportunity: organiser and its Unstop page, online or offline mode and city, registration window and final deadline, team size, who is eligible, the skills and work areas it is tagged with, every prize with its cash value and the total prize pool, any registration fee, and live view and registration counts. Internships and jobs also get salary or stipend as numbers with currency and period, work type and full-time or part-time status. The description comes as clean text and as the original HTML.

Unstop hackathon and competition data without an account

No Unstop login is needed. The Actor reads the same public listings anyone can browse.

Output fields

Field	Description
id, title, url, short_url	Unstop opportunity id, title and links
opportunity_type, subtype	hackathons, competitions, quizzes, internships, jobs, scholarships, workshops or conferences, plus Unstop's finer subtype
status, registration_open	Listing status and whether registration is open
organisation_name, organisation_id, organisation_url, logo_url	The college or company running it
mode, city, state, country, locations	online, offline or hybrid, and where it takes place or where the role is based
registration_start, registration_deadline, end_date, days_left	Registration window and final date
team_size_min, team_size_max	Team size allowed
eligibility	Who can take part, such as Engineering Students or Fresher
skills, work_functions, tags	Skills and work areas the opportunity is tagged with
prizes	Every prize: rank, cash, currency, certificate, interview offer, other rewards
total_prize_cash, prize_currency	Sum of cash prizes
registration_fee, is_paid_registration	Entry fee, when there is one
views_count, registrations_count	Live popularity
festival_name, festival_url	The college fest it belongs to, if any
salary_min, salary_max, salary_currency, salary_period, salary_disclosed, is_unpaid	Pay for internships and jobs
work_type, timing, experience_min_years, experience_max_years	wfh, in_office or hybrid; full or part time; experience asked
description, description_html	Full description as text and as HTML
approved_at, updated_at	When it was published and last changed
search_type, search_term, scraped_at, source	The search that produced the row, and collection time

Example output

{
  "id": 1765780,
  "title": "Webforge AI",
  "opportunity_type": "hackathons",
  "subtype": "online_coding_challenge",
  "url": "https://unstop.com/hackathons/webforge-ai-st-vincent-pallotti-college-of-engineering-and-technology-nagpur-1765780",
  "registration_open": true,
  "organisation_name": "St Vincent pallotti college of engineering and technology nagpur",
  "mode": "hybrid",
  "city": "Nagpur",
  "state": "Maharashtra",
  "country": "India",
  "registration_deadline": "2026-10-22T00:00:00+05:30",
  "end_date": "2026-10-24T16:00:00+05:30",
  "team_size_min": 2,
  "team_size_max": 3,
  "eligibility": ["Engineering Students", "Postgraduate", "Undergraduate"],
  "skills": ["Artificial Intelligence (AI)", "JavaScript", "HTML", "Problem Solving"],
  "prizes": [
    {"rank": "1st", "cash": 4000, "currency": "INR", "certificate": true, "pre_placement_interview": false, "other_rewards": null},
    {"rank": "2nd", "cash": 2500, "currency": "INR", "certificate": true, "pre_placement_interview": false, "other_rewards": null},
    {"rank": "3rd", "cash": 1000, "currency": "INR", "certificate": true, "pre_placement_interview": false, "other_rewards": null},
    {"rank": "Consolation", "cash": 500, "currency": "INR", "certificate": true, "pre_placement_interview": false, "other_rewards": null}
  ],
  "total_prize_cash": 8000,
  "prize_currency": "INR",
  "registration_fee": 100,
  "views_count": 4927,
  "registrations_count": 6,
  "source": "Unstop"
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
opportunityTypes	No	Any of hackathons (default), competitions, quizzes, internships, jobs, scholarships, workshops, conferences
searchTerms	No	Keywords matched against titles, such as AI or python; each runs against each type
status	No	open (default) for opportunities still taking registrations, closed, or all
maxResults	No	Opportunities saved per type and search term combination; defaults to 10

Unstop data export use cases

• Students and student communities can keep a live list of open hackathons and competitions with prize pools and deadlines.
• Career and edtech apps can add Unstop internships and campus jobs to their feeds, with stipend and eligibility.
• Employer branding and campus hiring teams can see which companies run hiring challenges, at what prize level and with how many registrations.
• College fest organisers and sponsors can benchmark prize pools, entry fees and turnout for comparable events.

Limitations

Search terms are matched by Unstop against titles, so a term finds "Python Developer" but not a listing that mentions Python only in its description. Prize values are whatever the organiser entered; non-cash prizes appear in other_rewards and are not counted in total_prize_cash. Many jobs do not show a salary, and those leave the salary fields empty with salary_disclosed false. Experience ranges are rarely filled by employers. city is set only for offline and hybrid events; online events and most jobs leave it empty, and jobs list their cities in locations instead. The all status includes past opportunities, so it can return several thousand rows per type.

Compared to alternatives

Other Unstop Actors focus on jobs and internships. This one covers every Unstop section — hackathons, competitions, quizzes, scholarships, workshops and conferences as well as jobs and internships — and returns structured prizes with a computed prize pool, registration fee, team size, eligibility and live registration counts in every row, with the full description included at no extra step.

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• Internshala Scraper — internships and fresher jobs from India's largest internship board
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FAQ

Do I need an Unstop account?

No. Only public listings are read.

How do I get only hackathons that are still open?

Leave opportunityTypes as hackathons and status as open, which are the defaults.

Can I get everything Unstop lists in one run?

Select every type, leave search terms empty and raise maxResults. Open opportunities across all sections run to a few thousand rows.

Last verified: 2026-10

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