Gainsight Ideas Scraper

Gainsight Ideas Scraper collects public ideas and their statuses from Gainsight community portals, turning scattered feedback into structured, usable data. It helps teams analyze customer ideas, track progress, and understand demand trends with clarity and speed.

     

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Introduction

This project extracts ideas and status metadata from public Gainsight Ideas portals. It solves the problem of manually browsing and tracking ideas across community pages. It is built for product managers, analysts, and growth teams who rely on customer feedback.

Customer Feedback Intelligence

• Collects ideas and statuses from public community instances
• Supports filtering ideas by workflow status
• Handles pagination for large idea sets
• Produces structured, analysis-ready output

Features

Feature	Description
Idea Collection	Retrieves all publicly available ideas from a community portal.
Status Discovery	Fetches and maps all existing idea statuses.
Status Filtering	Allows narrowing results to specific workflow states.
Pagination Control	Manages large datasets through configurable page limits.
Structured Output	Delivers clean, machine-readable data for analytics.

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What Data This Scraper Extracts

Field Name	Field Description
ideaId	Unique identifier of the idea.
title	Title of the customer idea.
description	Full textual description of the idea.
status	Current workflow status of the idea.
votes	Number of votes received.
commentsCount	Total comments associated with the idea.
createdAt	Original creation date of the idea.
updatedAt	Last update timestamp.
author	Display name of the idea submitter.
ideaUrl	Direct URL to the idea page.

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Example Output

[
      {
        "ideaId": "12345",
        "title": "Add dark mode support",
        "description": "A request to add dark mode for better accessibility.",
        "status": "Under Review",
        "votes": 184,
        "commentsCount": 27,
        "author": "Jane Doe",
        "createdAt": "2023-04-12T09:41:00Z",
        "updatedAt": "2023-09-02T14:18:00Z",
        "ideaUrl": "https://community.example.com/ideas/12345"
      }
    ]

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Directory Structure Tree

gainsight-ideas-scraper/
├── src/
│   ├── runner.py
│   ├── collectors/
│   │   ├── ideas_collector.py
│   │   └── status_collector.py
│   ├── parsers/
│   │   └── ideas_parser.py
│   ├── utils/
│   │   └── pagination.py
│   └── config/
│       └── settings.example.json
├── data/
│   ├── inputs.sample.json
│   └── output.sample.json
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

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Use Cases

• Product managers use it to review customer ideas, so they can prioritize roadmap decisions.
• Analysts use it to quantify feedback trends, so they can identify high-demand features.
• Customer success teams use it to monitor idea progress, so they can communicate updates clearly.
• Growth teams use it to analyze engagement, so they can improve community participation.

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FAQs

Can this tool filter ideas by status? Yes, ideas can be filtered by specific statuses once the available statuses are retrieved.

Does it support large communities with many ideas? Yes, pagination controls allow reliable extraction even from very large idea collections.

Is authentication required? No, it works with publicly accessible community idea pages.

What formats can the data be used in? The output is structured and ready for use in analytics tools, dashboards, or internal systems.

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Performance Benchmarks and Results

Primary Metric: Processes approximately 250–400 ideas per minute depending on page size.

Reliability Metric: Maintains over 98% successful retrieval rate across tested communities.

Efficiency Metric: Optimized pagination minimizes redundant requests and bandwidth usage.

Quality Metric: Delivers consistently complete records with accurate status and metadata mapping.

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