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Hacker News Jobs & Ask HN Scraper

Hacker News Jobs & Ask HN Scraper

Scrape Hacker News Who is Hiring and Ask HN threads. Extract job posts, hiring trends, and community questions. For hiring intelligence and startup research.

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Scrape Hacker News — the monthly "Who is Hiring" job posts, Ask HN threads, and any story's comments — via the official HN Algolia API. No key, no login, no anti-bot. For recruiters, job boards, market research and founder/demand signals.

What it does

  • hiring — auto-finds the latest Ask HN: Who is hiring? thread and parses each job post (company line, remote flag, full text, link)
  • ask — search Ask HN threads by keyword (points, comments, text)
  • comments — pull all comments from any story ID

Use cases

  • Recruiting / job boards — harvest fresh tech job posts monthly, filter by remote/stack
  • Market & demand research — mine Ask HN for pain points and "I wish there was…" signals
  • Lead gen — companies actively hiring = companies with budget
  • Sentiment / community analysis — pull full comment threads

Input

FieldTypeDefaultDescription
modestringhiringhiring / ask / comments
querystringask: search query; hiring: keyword filter (e.g. remote)
storyIdstringstory objectID (comments mode)
maxItemsinteger200Max results

Output (hiring)

{ "company": "Acme (YC S22) — Senior Backend Engineer", "remote": true, "author": "acmehr", "text": "Acme is hiring...", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=..." }

FAQ

API key? None — official HN Algolia API. Does it always find the right hiring thread? It locates the latest whoishiring "Who is hiring?" post automatically. Filter to remote only? Set query: "remote" in hiring mode.