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Lobsters Scraper - Tech News & Discussions

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Lobsters Scraper - Tech News & Discussions

Scrape Lobste.rs tech news stories. Get titles, scores, tags, comments, and authors from the front page, newest, or search results.

Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

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Lobsters Scraper

Extract tech news stories from Lobste.rs — the invite-only tech community. Get titles, URLs, scores, tags, comments, and author information.

Features

  • Front page — scrape the current front page stories
  • Newest — get the latest submitted stories
  • Hottest — scrape the hottest stories
  • By tag — filter stories by tag (e.g., "python", "security", "devops")
  • Search — search stories by keyword
  • Pagination — scrape multiple pages for more results

Input

FieldTypeDescription
modestring"front", "newest", "hottest", "tag", or "search" (default: "front")
searchQuerystringSearch query (only for "search" mode)
tagstringTag name (only for "tag" mode, e.g. "python", "security")
maxResultsnumberMax stories to return (default: 50)
maxPagesnumberMax pages to scrape (default: 2)

Output

Each story includes:

{
"title":"Why Rust is great for CLI tools",
"url":"https://example.com/article",
"domain":"example.com",
"score":42,
"commentCount":15,
"author":"username",
"tags":["rust","programming"],
"submittedAt":"2026-04-26T10:00:00Z",
"commentUrl":"https://lobste.rs/s/abc123",
"shortId":"abc123",
"scrapedAt":"2026-04-26T12:00:00Z"
}

Use Cases

  • Tech trend monitoring — track what the developer community is discussing
  • Content curation — find top-rated technical articles and discussions
  • Competitive intelligence — monitor mentions of technologies and products
  • Research — analyze developer community sentiment on tech topics
  • Newsletter content — curate high-quality technical articles

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing at $0.005 per result scraped.

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