Hacker News Search Scraper

Hacker News Search Scraper searches Hacker News — stories, comments, jobs, Ask HN, Show HN and polls — by keyword, date range and popularity, and returns clean structured JSON with a stable news.ycombinator.com permalink for every record. Pay only per record.

What this Hacker News scraper does

• Full-text search across Hacker News via the official HN Search API.
• Filter by item type (stories, comments, jobs, Ask/Show HN, polls, front page).
• Filter by minimum points, minimum comments and date range.
• Sort by relevance or newest first.
• Returns author, points, comment count, URL, text, ISO timestamp and the HN permalink.
• No proxy, no anti-bot, no rental — it just works.

Input

Field	Description
queries	List of search terms. Empty → page the newest/most-relevant of the chosen type.
tags	Item type: story, comment, show_hn, ask_hn, poll, job, front_page.
sortBy	relevance or date (newest first).
minPoints / minComments	Popularity thresholds.
createdAfter / createdBefore	ISO date bounds (optional).
maxItems	Cap on total records (0 = no limit).

Output

Each dataset item:

{
  "query": "show hn",
  "objectID": "12345678",
  "type": "story",
  "title": "Show HN: My side project",
  "author": "pg",
  "points": 274,
  "numComments": 88,
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "text": null,
  "createdAt": "2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-12T05:20:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0005 per record. Billed per record as it is delivered, so an aborted run only pays for what it returned. No monthly rental.

Common uses

• Track a company, product or keyword across Hacker News over time.
• Scrape "Who is hiring?" / job posts into a structured hiring dataset.
• Feed HN discussion into a RAG / LLM pipeline or a trend dashboard.