Hacker News Scraper - Search, Comments & Who's Hiring Jobs
Pricing
from $0.30 / 1,000 story or comments
Hacker News stories, comments and jobs: keyword search over the full archive, several queries per run, with points, date and author filters; front page, new, best, Ask and Show HN; comment threads; the monthly 'Who is hiring?' thread parsed into jobs with company, role, location, remote and salary.
You can access the Hacker News Scraper - Search, Comments & Who's Hiring Jobs programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "queries": [12 "web scraping"13 ]14};15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17const run = await client.actor("alex9080/hacker-news-scraper").call(input);18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)20console.log('Results from dataset');21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();23items.forEach((item) => {24 console.dir(item);25});26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper - Search, Comments & Who's Hiring Jobs API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: