📝 Dollar Hunter - Dev.to Articles & Tags Scraper

Search and extract articles, tags, and user content from the Dev.to developer community. No API key or login required.

✨ Features

• 📰 Latest Articles — Browse the most recent articles across all of Dev.to
• 🏷️ By Tag — Filter by any tag: javascript, python, ai, webdev, rust, and 100+ more
• 👤 By User — Get every article from any Dev.to author
• 📋 List All Tags — Complete tag directory with colors
• 🏆 Top of the Week — Toggle between latest and top-rated content
• 🔄 Auto-retry — Built-in retry for transient API failures
• 🌐 No auth needed — Uses Dev.to's public FORE API

📥 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	articles	articles (latest), tag (by tag), user (by username), tags_list (all tags)
query	string	javascript	Tag name, username, or keyword filter
maxResults	int	25	Max articles to return (1–100)
top	bool	false	true = top of the week, false = latest

📤 Output

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Article title
url	string	Direct link to the article
tags	array	List of tags
user_name	string	Author's display name
username	string	Author's Dev.to handle
reactions	int	Heart reactions count
comments	int	Comment count
reading_time	int	Estimated reading minutes
published_at	string	ISO timestamp
description	string	Article excerpt (300 chars)

🎯 Use Cases

• 📰 Content Curation — Find trending dev articles for newsletters or social media
• 🔍 Developer Research — Discover top technical writers by topic or language
• 🤖 AI Training Data — Curate high-quality developer content for ML fine-tuning
• 📊 Market Analysis — Track which technologies, frameworks, and languages are trending
• 🕵️ Competitive Intel — Monitor articles from specific authors or companies
• 📚 Learning Resources — Find the best community-voted tutorials by topic

📋 Example

{
  "mode": "tag",
  "query": "ai",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "top": true
}

Returns top 10 AI articles on Dev.to this week, voted by the community.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need a Dev.to account?
No. The FORE API is fully public for reading articles and tags.

Q: What tags are available?
Use tags_list mode to get all 100+ tags with their colors. Popular ones: javascript, python, ai, webdev, react, rust, go, devops.

Q: Can I search by keyword across all articles?
Currently the API supports filtering by tag or username. For broad keyword search, articles mode without a tag returns the latest across all of Dev.to.

Q: Are there rate limits?
Dev.to's API has generous rate limits. The actor handles 429 responses with automatic retry.

🏷️ Categories

Developer Tools · Social Media · Data Extraction

💰 Pricing

Pay per event — $0.002 per 25 articles. Only pay for successful runs.