Hacker News Scraper - Search, Comments & Who's Hiring Jobs

Hacker News Scraper

Everything from Hacker News in one Actor:

• Search the whole archive of stories and comments by keyword, with filters for points, comments, author and date.
• Lists: front page, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and YC jobs, with their current rank.
• Comment threads: every comment of a story with depth and parent, ready for sentiment analysis or LLM summaries.
• Who is hiring? jobs: the monthly "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread parsed into structured jobs: company, roles, location, remote/onsite/hybrid, salary, employment type, visa, emails and links. Filter by keywords and remote only.

Use it for tech trend research, brand and launch monitoring, lead generation from Show HN, building datasets, or finding remote jobs at startups.

Output examples

Story (search or lists):

{"type": "story", "rank": 3, "id": 49921234, "title": "Show HN: ...", "url": "https://example.com", "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921234", "author": "pg", "points": 412, "comments": 187, "date": "2026-10-02T14:11:05+00:00"}

Job (Who is hiring):

{
  "type": "job",
  "thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)",
  "company": "Sidekick Labs",
  "roles": "Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer",
  "location": "REMOTE (US Timezones)",
  "remote": true,
  "salary": "$170k to $230k",
  "employmentType": "full-time",
  "emails": ["jobs@example.com"],
  "headline": "Sidekick Labs | Senior SWE, R&D Engineer ... | REMOTE (US Timezones) | Full-time | $170k to $230k Base + Equity",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922600"
}

Input examples

Search: {"mode": "search", "queries": ["web scraping", "llm agents"], "types": ["story"], "minPoints": 50, "since": "2026-01-01"}

Front page: {"mode": "front_page", "maxItems": 30}

Comments: {"mode": "comments", "storyIds": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922569"]}

Remote Python jobs: {"mode": "whos_hiring", "keywords": ["python"], "remoteOnly": true}

Pricing

$0.30 per 1,000 stories or comments and $2 per 1,000 parsed job posts. A full Who is hiring thread (about 200 to 400 jobs) costs under $1.

Notes

Data comes from the official Hacker News API and its Algolia search API. Job fields are parsed from free text, so check the headline and text fields for anything unusual.