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Indie Launch Radar — Show HN Early-Traction Scanner

Scan Hacker News Show HN for early traction signals. Find indie products that just launched, analyze upvotes and comments. Perfect for competitor intelligence and inspiration.

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You can access the Indie Launch Radar — Show HN Early-Traction Scanner programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("agency-shift/indie-launch-radar-show-hn-early-traction-scanner").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Show HN Scraper — New Launches API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Indie Launch Radar — Show HN Early-Traction Scanner API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Indie Launch Radar — Show HN Early-Traction Scanner API in JavaScript

Indie Launch Radar — Show HN Early-Traction Scanner API through CLI

Indie Launch Radar — Show HN Early-Traction Scanner OpenAPI definition

Indie Launch Radar — Show HN Early-Traction Scanner API

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