PTT Crawler and Taiwan Forum Data: Getting Posts and Comments From PTT, Mobile01 and Bahamut

PTT has no official API: it is a BBS whose web mirror, ptt.cc, is public, so getting its posts and push comments means reading those pages — and boards such as Gossiping sit behind an age check first. Mobile01 and Bahamut are read the same way, from their public pages.

The table lists the actors this site maintains for Taiwan's forums and what each returns and costs. The guides cover sentiment monitoring, what a scraper can and cannot replace in a monitoring job, and a game-community agent built on Bahamut.

The actors behind this topic

Guides

• Apify Free Tier: How Many Scraper Runs Does $5 a Month Buy? Most developer tools — AI APIs, automation platforms, hosting — bill a fixed amount every month whether you use them or not, so it's easy to assume Apify works the same way.
• PTT Monitoring: Hire Someone to Watch PTT and Mobile01, or Let a Scraper Do Most of the Job? A real Taiwan job posting pays NT$30,000–40,000/month (about US$1,100–1,480 once you add employer overhead) to have someone watch PTT, Dcard, and Mobile01 for brand chatter.
• Monitor Taiwan's Bahamut Gaming Forum in English with Claude Code + Apify MCP Global game teams shipping into Taiwan can't read Bahamut, its largest Chinese-language gaming forum — but patch reactions are sitting right there.
• Build a no-code forum sentiment pipeline with Apify + n8n + GPT Wire an Apify forum scraper into n8n, let GPT tag every post positive/negative/neutral, and get a Slack alert when sentiment turns — on a schedule, without writing code.

From least effort to most freedom

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FAQ

Does PTT have an official API?

No. PTT is a BBS; its web version ptt.cc is public, so data comes from reading those pages. Boards like Gossiping require an age check first, which ptt-scraper handles.

Can I monitor PTT, Mobile01 and Bahamut together?

Yes. Run each forum's actor on a schedule with the same keywords, or use the managed service to get one combined feed.