How to Scrape Dev.to — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Dev.to data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Dev.to Scraper - Articles by Tag & Author, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Dev.to login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

title
author
tags
reactionsCount
commentsCount
readingTimeMinutes
url
publishedAt
id
description
canonicalUrl
authorUsername
organization
positiveReactionsCount

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/devto-articles-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install devto-articles-scraper

const scrape = require("devto-articles-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install devto-articles-scraper

from devto_articles_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`sort`	string	Sort / feed
`tag`	string	Tag
`customTag`	string	Tag (custom)
`username`	string	Username
`maxArticles`	integer	Max articles

Common use cases

Build a fresh Dev.to dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Dev.to records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Dev.to data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.