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Extract Hacker News stories, comments, and user profiles for trend analysis and tech intelligence

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Developer

Ahmed Jasarevic

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Monthly active users

17 hours ago

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Categories

News

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Sections to Scrape

sections

Optional

Which HN sections to scrape. Leave empty for all sections (front, ask, show, jobs).

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "front",
  "ask",
  "show",
  "jobs"
]

Max Items per Section

maxItemsPerSection

Optional

Maximum number of stories to fetch per section (max 500).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:50

Max Total Items

maxItemsTotal

Optional

Hard cap on total items scraped across all sections (0 = unlimited by this cap, limited by maxItemsPerSection only).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Specific Item IDs

itemIds

Optional

Fetch specific HN item IDs directly (overrides sections). Example: 41804059, 41804060

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Usernames to Look Up

usernames

Optional

Fetch HN user profiles by username (overrides sections and itemIds).

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Include Comment Count

includeCommentCount

Optional

Include the number of comments (descendants) for each story.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include Top-Level Comment Count

includeTopLevelComments

Optional

Include the number of top-level comments (kids array length) for each story.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Convert Timestamps

convertTimestamps

Optional

Convert Unix timestamps to ISO 8601 date strings.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Output Format

outputFormat

Optional

How to structure the output data.

Type:string

Default:flat

Options:

flatnested

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