Devpost Hackathon Listings Scraper

Extract hackathon listings from Devpost — title, prize totals, themes, participant counts, submission windows, and host organizations. Filter by status (open/upcoming/ended), keyword search, or theme. No account required.

What it returns

Each hackathon record includes:

Field	Description
hackathon_id	Devpost's numeric ID
title	Hackathon name
url	Canonical URL (subdomain on devpost.com)
state	open / upcoming / ended
submission_period_dates	Human-readable submission window
time_left_to_submission	Remaining time string from Devpost
prize_amount_raw	Prize total as displayed (e.g. $60,000)
prize_amount_usd	Parsed numeric value in USD
prizes_count_cash	Number of cash prizes
themes	Pipe-separated theme names (e.g. Machine Learning/AI | Databases)
is_ai_track	true when the hackathon includes an AI/ML theme
participant_count	Registered participants
winners_announced	Whether winners have been posted
host_organization	Organizing company or institution
location_type	online / in-person
location_city	City for in-person events
thumbnail_url	Hackathon thumbnail image
submission_gallery_url	Link to project gallery
invite_only	Whether registration requires an invite
managed_by_devpost	Devpost-managed badge flag
scraped_at	ISO-8601 timestamp

Input options

Field	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Maximum hackathons to return. Leave empty for all.
status	enum	Filter by open, upcoming, or ended. Default: all statuses.
searchQuery	string	Full-text search across titles and descriptions.
themeFilter	string	Client-side partial match on theme names (e.g. Machine Learning/AI).
orderBy	enum	Sort order: recently-added, prize-amount, deadline, submissions-count.

Common use cases

Find all open AI hackathons with prize pools Set status: open, searchQuery: AI, orderBy: prize-amount.

VC scout pipeline — upcoming events where founders form teams Set status: upcoming, orderBy: deadline to surface imminent registration windows.

Sponsor research — identify which organizations run the most hackathons Pull all records and aggregate by host_organization.

Pre-seed founder sourcing Combine with the F6S and Product Hunt actors to track the same founders across application, hackathon participation, and launch stages.

Notes

The is_ai_track flag checks theme IDs and names — it catches Machine Learning/AI, Generative AI, LLM, Deep Learning, and similar labels without requiring exact-match input. Prize amounts are parsed from Devpost's HTML-wrapped strings; records with non-standard formatting get prize_amount_usd: null with the raw string preserved in prize_amount_raw.

Devpost caps API responses at 40 per page. A full catalog pull of 13,000+ hackathons takes several minutes at the polite 150ms inter-page delay.