Hacker News Scraper
Pricing
from $1.99 / 1,000 scraped results
Hacker News Scraper collects live public articles from news.ycombinator.com and stores each result as a structured JSON record with title, URL, snippet, date and source metadata.
You can access the Hacker News Scraper 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "sourceDomain": "news.ycombinator.com",10 "startUrls": [],11 "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence"],12 "maxItems": 10,13 "maxPages": 3,14 "detailPages": 10,15 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },16 "autoProxy": True,17 "requestDelayMillis": 0,18 "maxRetries": 0,19}20
21# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish22run = client.actor("ai_category/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)23
24# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)25print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")26for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():27 print(item)28
29# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: