You can access the Hacker News Search & Monitor 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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 = { "query": "apify" }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("agentictools/hacker-news-search").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 Search and Monitor API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Search & Monitor API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Hacker News Search & Monitor API in JavaScript

Hacker News Search & Monitor API through CLI

Hacker News Search & Monitor OpenAPI definition

Hacker News Search & Monitor API

Hacker News Search & Monitor

scrapeworks/hacker-news-search

Search and monitor Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs and users. No auth, clean structured JSON. Filter by points, date, author, and tags.

Nicolas van Arkens

Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments & Search

scrapemint/hacker-news-scraper

Search and scrape Hacker News: stories and comments by keyword, author, points, date or category (front page, Ask HN, Show HN). One clean row per story or comment with points, comment count, author and links. No API key.

Ken M

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Ask HN by Keyword

convertfleetdotonline/hacker-news-scraper

Search and export Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN and polls by keyword. Points, author, comment counts, URLs & timestamps. Official public API — no login, no key, no proxy. JSON/CSV export.

Hasnain Nisar

Hacker News Scraper

mangudai/hacker-news-scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, and polls. Search by keyword, filter by points or comments, sort by relevance or date. Get title, url, author, points, comment count, and timestamps as clean JSON. No login, no API key.

Mangudäi

Hacker News Scraper

centspy/hackernews-scraper

Search and scrape Hacker News stories, comments, Show HN and Ask HN via the public API. No proxy, no browser.

brandon nadeau

Hacker News Search Scraper Stories, Comments, Show HN, Ask HN

seemuapps/hn-search-scraper

Search Hacker News stories, comments, Show HN, Ask HN, polls, and jobs by keyword, author, date range, points, and comment count. Full text and engagement metrics. No login.

Andrew

Hacker News Scraper

johnlenflure/hn-scraper

Scrape Hacker News top stories, best, new, Ask HN, Show HN, and jobs. Extract titles, points, authors, comments, and URLs.

Sinan Donmez

Hacker News Scraper — Stories & Comments Search

omao/hackernews

Search Hacker News stories, comments, Show HN and Ask HN by keyword into clean JSON: title, URL, author, points, comment count and dates. Powered by the official HN Algolia API. No anti-bot.

Marouane Oulabass

Hacker News Scraper — Stories & Comments

ponderable_hydrometer/hackernews-scraper

Search Hacker News stories & comments by keyword, author, points or date. Monitor keywords, domains & users. Free Algolia HN API, no key. For research, PR & alerts.