Pikabu Scraper Пикабу: Posts, Tags, Communities, Users & Search

Pikabu Scraper: Posts by Keyword, Tag, Community or User

Collect posts from Pikabu (pikabu.ru), the Russian community and content site. Search a keyword, browse a tag or community, read one user's posts or walk the main feeds. Every row carries the title, author, rating, plus and minus votes, comment count, community, tags, publish date, body text, images and video link.

Start a 7-day free trial, pick a source and get your first posts in under a minute. No card is needed for the trial.

📊 What you get

• Five ways in. Search by keyword, browse a tag, read a community, read one user's posts or take the Hot, Fresh or Best feed. You can also paste any Pikabu link.
• Engagement on every row. Rating, plus and minus votes (when Pikabu shows them), comment count and the post's community and tags.
• Real post content. Body text, image links and video links come back with each post.
• Filters that save time. Keep only posts above a minimum rating or comment count, or published within the last N days.
• Many pages per run. The Actor turns pages by itself until your post limit is reached. A 60-post search finished in 34 seconds in our test.
• Most visible comment on request. Switch on "Open each post page" and each row also carries the post's top comment.
• New post monitor. Give a run a monitor name and later runs skip every post that name has already returned. Schedule it for a feed of new posts.
• Your format. Download Excel, CSV or JSON, or pull the data into your own tools through the API.

👥 Who it is for

• Content researchers: "I want to see which topics and tags are taking off on Pikabu without opening dozens of tabs."
• Social listening analysts: "I follow a keyword or brand name across Pikabu search results, newest first, on a schedule."
• Data journalists: "I need a dataset of posts and engagement around one tag or community."
• Community managers: "I watch how posts in one community perform and which authors drive them."

🚀 How it works

1. Pick a source. Choose keyword search, tag, community, user or main feed, and fill in the one field that matches. Or paste Pikabu links.
2. Set your limits. Choose how many posts you want and add rating, comment or date filters if you need them.
3. Run and export. Read the rows in the table or download them. Add a monitor name and a schedule to receive only new posts each time.

The Actor needs no Pikabu account.

📥 Input

Field	What it does
Pikabu links	Paste a search, tag, community, user, feed or single post link. When filled, it replaces the source below.
Source	Tag, Search by keyword, Community, User posts or Main feed.
Tag, Search keyword, Community, Username, Main feed	The value for the source you picked. Tags and keywords can be in Russian or English.
Search order	Newest first, top rated of all time, or trending recently (search only).
Max posts	How many posts to return. Pikabu shows about 10 posts per page.
Max pages per source	Optional cap on pages read per source.
Minimum rating, Minimum comments	Keep only posts at or above these numbers.
Published within days	Keep only posts from the last N days.
Open each post page	Adds the post's most visible comment. Slower, one extra page per post.
Monitor name	Return only posts this monitor has not returned before.

📋 Output

Each row is one post. Fields Pikabu does not show for a post are left out, never filled with placeholders.

Field	What it holds
storyId, title, postUrl	The post and its public link
authorId, authorName, authorUrl, authorSubscribers	The author and their follower count
rating, pluses, minuses, commentsCount	Engagement on the post
communityName, communityUrl, topic, topicUrl, tags	Where the post sits on Pikabu
publishedAt, scrapedAt	When the post went up and when it was collected
contentText, textLength	Body text and its length
images, videoUrl	Image links and the video link, when the post has them
topComment	The most visible comment (id, author, text, rating, date), with "Open each post page"
sourceUrl	The Pikabu page the post was collected from

💰 Pricing

$19 a month after a 7-day free trial. Compute is billed from your prepaid credits during the trial and after it. In our tests, a 25-post tag run used about 0.1 cent of compute, a 60-post search about 0.2 cent, and a 20-post community run with every post page opened about 0.4 cent.

💡 Good to know

• Pikabu is in Russian, so titles, tags, text and comments come back in Russian.
• Only public pages are read. The Actor needs no login.
• Pikabu sometimes refuses a page load. The Actor retries from another connection on its own, and all eight of our test runs finished with the posts we asked for.
• View counts are not shown on Pikabu's pages, so they are not in the output. With "Open each post page" you get the most visible comment, not the whole thread.
• Ratings and comment counts are a snapshot from the moment of the run.
• The monitor skips posts it has returned before. On sources that are not ordered newest first, it reads further down the list to find posts it has not seen.
• The Actor is independent and not affiliated with Pikabu.