Qiita + Zenn Tech Article Scraper (Japan)

Collect Japanese technical articles from Qiita and Zenn by tag, keyword or user. Markdown/plain-text bodies, tags, likes, authors — ready for RAG, fine-tuning, dev-trend research and content ideation. Pay per article.

Collects Japanese technical articles from Qiita and Zenn — the two largest developer knowledge-sharing platforms in Japan — and returns them as clean JSON with Markdown / plain-text bodies. Built for Japanese LLM datasets (RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation), developer-trend research and content ideation.

What you get

Input

• Tags / topics — e.g. claude, python, nextjs, 生成AI. Applied to both platforms.
• Keywords (Qiita only) — free-text search in title/body.
• User names — pull everything an author published.
• Minimum likes / Published after — dataset quality and recency filters. Filtering happens *before* charging, so you don't pay for skipped articles.
• Include body — turn off for metadata-only crawls (cheaper).
• Qiita access token (optional) — raises the Qiita API limit from 60 to 1,000 requests/hour (each request fetches up to 100 articles).

Pricing (pay per event)

• Article (with body) — full body + metadata.
• Article (metadata only) — title, URL, author, tags, likes, dates.

The Apify free plan is enough to try it.

Use cases

• Japanese RAG / fine-tuning corpora — e.g. "all Qiita + Zenn articles tagged claude with ≥ 20 likes since 2025" in one run.
• Developer trend research — which frameworks / tools are Japanese engineers writing about this month?
• Content ideation for tech blogs & YouTube — find high-engagement topics and gaps.
• Competitive intelligence for dev-tool vendors — track how your product and competitors are discussed in Japan.

Example output

{
  "platform": "zenn",
  "title": "Claude Codeで実行してほしくないコマンドには代替手段を伝える",
  "url": "https://zenn.dev/example/articles/abc123",
  "author": "example",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-14T10:00:00.000+09:00",
  "likes": 42,
  "tags": ["Claude", "ClaudeCode", "AI"],
  "bodyText": "## はじめに\nClaude Code の設定で…",
  "bodyLength": 5102
}

Notes

• Qiita is accessed through its official public API; Zenn through its public JSON endpoints and server-rendered article pages, at low request rates.
• Article content belongs to its authors. Use the data in accordance with each platform's terms and Japanese copyright law (research, analysis and internal RAG use are typical).
• See also: PR TIMES Press Release Scraper by the same developer for Japanese business news.

料金（Pay-per-event）

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