Eksi Sozluk Scraper

💬 Eksi Sozluk Scraper

Collect entries from Ekşi Sözlük, Turkey's largest collaborative dictionary and discussion site: whole topics, keyword searches, gündem, debe, channels and every entry of an author. Each entry comes with its full text, date, favorite count, author and topic, ready for sentiment analysis, trend research or archiving. No login, no API key and no Turkish proxy needed: 1,000 entries take about 25 seconds.

✨ Why use Eksi Sozluk Scraper?

• ⚡ Fast — reads many pages at once: 1,000 entries in about 25 seconds, 10,000 in about 2 minutes.
• 🔓 No login or cookies — only public pages, exactly what a logged-out visitor sees.
• 🧭 Every way in — topic links, entry links, keyword search with the site's own filters, gündem, debe, channels (#spor, #siyaset...), tarihte bugün and author profiles.
• 🧹 Clean data — plain text plus the original HTML, ISO dates in Turkey time (written and edited), numbers as numbers, external links pulled out.
• 🎯 Filters built in — author, date range, minimum favorites, "güzelinden olsun", search order and topic order (oldest, newest, şükela).
• 💸 Cheap — pay only for the entries you get.

🎯 Use cases

• 📊 Public opinion and sentiment research — what Turkish internet users say about a brand, a politician, a match or an event.
• 📰 Trend monitoring — save the gündem and debe every day and watch topics rise and fall.
• 🏷️ Brand monitoring — search your brand or product name and collect every mention with its date and favorites.
• 🧠 NLP and language datasets — large, dated Turkish text corpora by topic or author.
• 🗃️ Archiving — keep a copy of a topic or of an author's entries.
• 🎓 Academic studies — reproducible exports of topics and date ranges.

🚀 How to use

1. Paste Ekşi Sözlük links into Eksi Sozluk links (topics, entries, authors, gündem, debe, channels or search pages), and/or type Search keywords, and/or add Authors.
2. Set Max entries per link, search or author (0 = no limit).
3. Optional: add filters (author, dates, minimum favorites) and choose the topic order.
4. Click Start. Entries appear in the dataset as they are scraped.
5. Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

📥 Input

{
  "startUrls": ["https://eksisozluk.com/istanbul--32102", "https://eksisozluk.com/basliklar/gundem"],
  "searchQueries": ["deprem"],
  "authors": ["ssg"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "topicSortOrder": "newest",
  "minFavorites": 5
}

📤 Output

One row per entry.

Example (author and text are illustrative):

{
  "type": "entry",
  "entryId": "187268323",
  "entryUrl": "https://eksisozluk.com/entry/187268323",
  "content": "boğazda vapura binip simit atan martıları izlemek hâlâ en güzel terapi.",
  "contentHtml": "boğazda vapura binip simit atan martıları izlemek hâlâ en güzel terapi.",
  "date": "21.10.2026 10:29",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-21T10:29:00+03:00",
  "editedAt": null,
  "favoriteCount": 3,
  "commentCount": 0,
  "issueTitle": "istanbul",
  "issueUrl": "https://eksisozluk.com/istanbul--32102",
  "topicId": "32102",
  "authorName": "ornek yazar",
  "authorId": "1234567",
  "authorUrl": "https://eksisozluk.com/biri/ornek-yazar",
  "authorAvatar": "https://ekstat.com/img/default-profile-picture-light.svg",
  "hasCustomAvatar": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "externalLinks": [],
  "eksiSeylerUrl": null,
  "page": 1440,
  "sourceType": "topic",
  "sourceUrl": "https://eksisozluk.com/istanbul--32102",
  "searchQuery": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T14:42:49.120Z"
}

A run summary (entries per source, notes such as "author not found") is saved as OUTPUT in the key-value store.

💰 Pricing

You pay $0.70 per 1,000 entries ($0.0007 per entry), plus a small platform usage fee (compute and proxy traffic), which was under half a cent per 1,000 entries in our tests with the default datacenter proxy. Example: 1,000 entries ≈ $0.70 in total. You are never charged for duplicates, filtered-out entries or failed pages, and a run stops cleanly when it reaches your maximum charge.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Ekşi Sözlük? The scraper reads only public pages that anyone can open without an account. You are responsible for how you use the data: respect Ekşi Sözlük's terms and privacy laws such as KVKK and GDPR, especially when you work with author nicknames.

Do I need an account, cookies or a Turkish proxy? No. The default datacenter proxy works. If the site ever refuses it, the scraper switches to residential exits in Turkey by itself.

How many entries can I get? A topic has as many entries as the site shows (10 per page; large topics have tens of thousands). A keyword search returns up to 100 topics, and you choose how many entries to take from each with Entries per topic. The gündem lists about 100 topics and a channel a few hundred.

Why is a field empty? editedAt is empty when the entry was never edited, externalLinks when it has no outside links, eksiSeylerUrl when no ekşi şeyler article uses it. Entries from 1999 to the early 2000s often have a date without a time.

Can I get the newest or most liked entries of a topic? Yes: set Topic entry order to "Newest first", "Most favorited" or "Today's most favorited".

Can I schedule it or use it from code? Yes. Schedule runs (for example the gündem every morning) and read the dataset through the API in JSON, CSV or Excel.

⚠️ Limits

• Only public content: no private messages, no logged-in features (follows, votes you cast, "olay" notifications).
• Comments under entries (yorumlar) and author profile details (badges, follower counts) are not collected.
• Keyword search returns at most the 100 topics the site shows per search.
• The "entries they favorited" tab is empty for authors who keep their favorites private.
• Deleted entries and topics cannot be recovered.