What does Productboard roadmap scraper do?

This scraper extracts data from Productboard roadmap to a key-value store (OUTPUT) as a map (id -- feature). Scraped feature data includes:

• Feature name
• Feature description
• Timeline(s) of feature (multiple if sub-features are in different timelines)
• Team assigned to feature
• List of connected sub-features
  • Sub-feature name
  • Sub-feature description
  • Timeline of sub-feature

Scraped data use case

Actor extracts data from the productboard roadmap to a JSON file. You can use data to your own use cases, such as:

• Creating a summary of the roadmap
• Aggregating data from multiple roadmaps
• Make your own roadmap visualization

How to scrape Productboard roadmap?

You need to have email/password access to the Productboard set. You also need to have a URL link to your roadmap (when you are sign-in).

Input

Input is following:

• Productboard roadmap URL - URL to your Productboard roadmap
• User email - email of user to sign in to Productboard
• User password - password of user to sign in to Productboard

Ouput

Output is present in a key-value store as OUTPUT.

Output is a map of features, where key is a feature id and value is an object:

1type FeatureId = string
2
3type ResultMap = Record<FeatureId, {
4    title: string
5    description: string
6    timeline: string[]
7    team: string
8    features: Record<FeatureId, {
9        title: string
10        description: string
11        timeline: string
12    }>
13}>

Example output:

1"123": {
2    "title": "Customer Profile Enhancements",
3    "description": "The goal of this feature is to enhance the [customer profile section](https://blog.hubspot.com/service/customer-profiling) to provide a more comprehensive view of customer data and improve user experience.
",
4    "timeline": [
5      "Now",
6      "Next"
7    ],
8    "team": "FE team",
9    "features": {
10      "321": {
11        "title": "UI redesign",
12        "description": "Revamp the customer profile page layout to accommodate new sections and improve overall aesthetics.",
13        "timeline": "Now"
14      }
15      "322": {
16        "title": "Timeline Component Implementation",
17        "description": "Develop and integrate a timeline component to display recent customer activities and interactions in a chronological order.",
18        "timeline": "Next"
19      }
20    }
21  }