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Show HN Scraper — Hacker News AI Launches & New Tools

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Scrape Show HN posts from Hacker News: title, URL, points, comments and date. Preset for AI tools, agents, LLMs and MCP; change the keywords to track any topic. Official Algolia HN API, no key, no login.

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You can access the Show HN Scraper — Hacker News AI Launches & New Tools 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {};
11
12// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
13const run = await client.actor("agentdataco/hn-show-hn-ai-launches").call(input);
14
15// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
16console.log('Results from dataset');
17console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
18const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
19items.forEach((item) => {
20    console.dir(item);
21});
22
23// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Show HN Scraper — Hacker News AI Launches & Product Feed API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Show HN Scraper — Hacker News AI Launches & New Tools API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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