💬 Blind Post Scraper

🎯 Pull anonymous tech industry conversations, layoff rumors, and salary intel straight off TeamBlind.com — at scale, in seconds.

This scraper collects posts, comments, polls, channels, and the raw signal behind every Blind discussion. Use it to track what tech workers are actually saying about hiring, comp, layoffs, RTO, your competitors, or your own company — with a clean, structured dataset you can drop into a spreadsheet, BI tool, or LLM.

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🚀 What Does It Do?

This scraper automatically opens any TeamBlind page — a channel, a topic, a search query, or a single post — and pulls every discussion it finds into structured, ready-to-use data. No manual browsing, no copy-paste, no login required.

💡 Two modes of operation:

1. 🔍 Discovery Mode — Drop in a channel URL (e.g. /channels/tech), a hot/trending feed, or a search query. The scraper walks the listing and returns every post with its title, channel, comment count, and view count.
2. 📋 Direct URL Mode — Drop in a single post URL and get the full post body, all visible comments and replies, poll results, author nickname, company tag, and engagement metrics.

🔁 You can also flip a switch to combine both — start from a listing and automatically fetch the full body of every post discovered.

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👥 Who Is This For?

🏢 Use Case	💬 How It Helps
📈 Recruiters & TA Leaders	Monitor sentiment about your company, salary expectations, interview leaks, and competitor comp benchmarks
📊 Market Researchers	Track what's being said about specific products, layoffs, or hiring trends across the tech industry
📰 Journalists & Analysts	Source anonymous insider commentary on layoffs, mergers, IPOs, and corporate culture stories
🛡️ Brand & Reputation Teams	Catch viral threads about your company early — before they make it to LinkedIn or the press
🤖 AI / Data Teams	Build training datasets for sentiment models, salary predictors, or conversational AI on real-world tech discussions
🎯 Competitive Intelligence	See what employees of rival companies are talking about — comp ranges, RTO complaints, project leaks

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✨ Features

• 🌐 Any URL Works — Channels, topics, search results, trending feeds, single posts. Just paste, hit Start
• 💬 Full Comment Threads — Every comment with the original poster, replying nickname, company tag, like count, and timestamp
• 📊 Poll Results — When a post is a poll, you get the question type, vote counts per option, and total participants
• 🏢 Company Tags — Each post and comment carries the verified company of the author (Meta, Google, Apple, Stripe…)
• 📈 Engagement Metrics — Views, comment count, and like counts per comment
• 🔎 Search & Filter Friendly — Hit a search query URL like /search?q=anthropic and pull every result
• 📅 Timestamps Everywhere — Both post and comments include the original timestamp from Blind
• ⚡ Fast & Scalable — Lightweight HTTP-only architecture means hundreds of posts in minutes, not hours
• 🧹 Built-in Deduplication — The scraper automatically skips duplicate posts even when the same post shows up across multiple channels
• 📤 Export Anywhere — Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or your CRM

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🎛️ Filters & Options

Option	What It Does
🔗 Start URLs	Any TeamBlind URL — popular feed, newest feed, channels, company pages, search, single posts
🔢 Max Items	Cap the run at a specific number of posts. Set to 0 for unlimited (max 10,000)
🪄 Scrape Posts From Lists	When ON, follow every post link discovered on a listing and return full post detail
💬 Scrape Comments	Toggle the comments array on or off. Off = much faster, just titles + metadata
🔢 Max Comments Per Post	Cap how many comments per post end up in the output (replies count toward the limit). 0 = no cap
🌐 Proxy Configuration	TeamBlind blocks data-center IPs — residential Apify Proxy is the prefilled default
⚡ Max Concurrency	Run multiple pages in parallel for faster crawls

🔗 Supported Start URL Examples

Type	URL	What You Get
🔥 Popular feed	https://www.teamblind.com/?sort=pop	The current top stories across the whole site
🆕 Newest feed	https://www.teamblind.com/?sort=id	The most recently posted threads, freshly published
🏷️ Channel / topic	https://www.teamblind.com/channels/tech	Every post in a topic channel — tech, career, layoffs, hr, india-news, bay-area, etc.
🏢 Company page	https://www.teamblind.com/company/Meta	Posts from a specific company channel — Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, anything
🏆 Best-of	https://www.teamblind.com/best/2026	The editor-picked best threads of the year
🔎 Search query	https://www.teamblind.com/?q=anthropic	Every post matching a keyword — drop in any query you'd type into Blind's search bar
📄 Single post	https://www.teamblind.com/post/anthropic-hiring-freeze-clzz04de	Full body, comments, poll, author/company tag and engagement stats for that one post

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📦 What You Get (Output Fields)

Every post is exported as a clean JSON record. List-mode runs return a compact summary; detail-mode runs return the full body, comments, and poll data.

Post Identity

Field	Example
title	"Anthropic hiring freeze?"
url	"https://www.teamblind.com/post/anthropic-hiring-freeze-clzz04de"
channel	"Tech Industry"
author	"fccukMeta"
company	"Meta"

Body

Field	Example
description	"Recruiter just mentioned to be there is some unexpected pause and they are waiting to clear up some things..."
content	"Recruiter just mentioned to be there is some unexpected pause and they are waiting to clear up some things.\n\nIs it true?\n\nEdit: Looks its random and very few got cancelled. Just my usual bad luck I guess\n\n#tech #anthropic"
imageUrl	null

Engagement

Field	Example
views	8870
comments	72
commentCount	72
postedAt	"2026-04-26T23:00:00.000Z"

Comments (detail mode)

Each entry in the comments array carries:

Field	Example
id	50511212
author	"shinchan66"
company	"HashiCorp"
text	"Confirmed. Anthropic is now pivoting to footware"
likes	77
timestamp	"Apr 27, 2026"
isOp	false
parentCommentId	50511212

Poll (detail mode, if present)

Field	Example
hasPoll	true
pollType	"single"
participants	843
options	[{"text": "Yes, hiring is paused", "votes": 451}, {"text": "No, just a rumor", "votes": 392}]

Metadata

Field	Example
sourceUrl	"https://www.teamblind.com/channels/tech"
scrapedAt	"2026-05-01T18:30:11.482Z"

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📊 Example Output

{
    "title": "Anthropic hiring freeze?",
    "url": "https://www.teamblind.com/post/anthropic-hiring-freeze-clzz04de",
    "channel": "Tech Industry",
    "author": "fccukMeta",
    "company": "Meta",
    "description": "Recruiter just mentioned to be there is some unexpected pause and they are waiting to clear up some things.",
    "content": "Recruiter just mentioned to be there is some unexpected pause and they are waiting to clear up some things.\n\nIs it true?\n\nEdit: Looks its random and very few got cancelled. Just my usual bad luck I guess\n\n#tech #anthropic",
    "imageUrl": null,
    "commentCount": 72,
    "comments": [
        {
            "id": 50511212,
            "author": "shinchan66",
            "company": "HashiCorp",
            "text": "Confirmed. Anthropic is now pivoting to footware",
            "likes": 77,
            "timestamp": "Apr 27, 2026",
            "isOp": false
        },
        {
            "id": 50515676,
            "author": "curochfu",
            "company": "Snap",
            "text": "Claude Clogs",
            "likes": 5,
            "timestamp": "Apr 27, 2026",
            "isOp": false,
            "parentCommentId": 50511212
        },
        {
            "id": 50508018,
            "author": "ah7fvc",
            "company": "Netflix",
            "text": "Confirmed. AI got cancelled",
            "likes": 34,
            "timestamp": "Apr 27, 2026",
            "isOp": false
        }
    ],
    "poll": {
        "hasPoll": false
    },
    "views": 8870,
    "postedAt": "2026-04-26T23:00:00.000Z",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.teamblind.com/post/anthropic-hiring-freeze-clzz04de",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-01T19:23:08.947Z"
}

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📋 Dataset Views

The Apify Console gives you 2 ready-made table views to quickly browse your results:

View	What It Shows
📊 Overview	Title, channel, author, company, comment count, view count, URL — perfect for quick scanning
📋 Detailed	Every field — full body, all comments, poll results, timestamps, source URL

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❓ FAQ

🤔 Do I need a Blind account to use this? No. The scraper works on publicly available pages — no login, no cookies, no credentials needed.

🤔 Will I get banned or rate-limited? Apify Proxy with residential IPs is recommended for larger runs. For small jobs (a few channels or posts) you usually don't need a proxy at all.

🤔 How many comments per post will I get? You get the full set of comments and replies that Blind itself shows on the post page — typically every visible top-level comment along with its nested replies.

🤔 Can I scrape company-specific channels (Meta, Google, Stripe…)? Yes — paste any channel or company URL and the scraper handles it like any other listing.

🤔 Can I export the data? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, RSS. You can also push data directly to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or any webhook/API endpoint.

🤔 How often should I run this? For fresh data, run daily or weekly. You can schedule automatic runs on Apify with just a few clicks.

🤔 Does it work with proxies? Yes — residential proxies are recommended for the best results. The scraper works with Apify's built-in proxy service.

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🛠️ Need Custom Filters or Features?

I'm happy to customize this scraper for your specific needs! 🤝

Whether you need:

• 🎯 Additional filters (specific companies, channels, keyword matching, date ranges, minimum likes/views thresholds)
• 📊 Extra data fields or custom output formats
• 🔄 Integration with your CRM, Google Sheets, or database
• ⏰ Scheduled scraping with automatic deduplication and change tracking
• 🌐 Scraping from other anonymous community platforms alongside TeamBlind (e.g. Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Layoffs.fyi)

👉 Don't hesitate to reach out via private message — I respond quickly and I'm always open to building exactly what you need. No request is too small or too specific!

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⚖️ Legal & Ethical Use

This scraper collects only publicly available information from TeamBlind.com. It does not access private data, bypass authentication, scrape members-only channels, or interact with any user account. Please use the data responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws and TeamBlind's terms of service.