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HN Who's Hiring Parser — Structured Jobs from Hacker News

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HN Who's Hiring Parser — Structured Jobs from Hacker News

HN Who's Hiring Parser — Structured Jobs from Hacker News

Parse the monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread into structured job listings: company, role, location, remote, salary, and tech tags.

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Andres Garcia-Baquero Leon

Andres Garcia-Baquero Leon

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Turn the monthly "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread into a clean, structured job dataset. Every month HN's hiring thread has 300-500 great job posts buried in free-text comments — this Actor parses them into fields you can filter, search, and pipe into a spreadsheet, ATS, or job board.

Why not just use the HN API? The official API returns each post as a raw HTML comment blob. This Actor does the hard part: it finds the right monthly thread automatically and parses each listing into company, role, location, remote, salary, and techTags — plus remote-only and keyword filtering.

What you get per listing

FieldDescription
companyCompany / org name
roleRole title
locationLocation string
remoteremote, onsite, hybrid, or unspecified (auto-detected)
salaryDetected salary/range when present (e.g. $180k–$210k)
techTagsDetected technologies (rust, python, react, aws, …)
urlCompany / application link
hnUrlDirect link to the HN comment
authorHN username who posted
postedAtUnix timestamp
textFull plain-text of the listing

Input

{
"month": "latest",
"remoteOnly": true,
"keywords": ["rust", "python"],
"maxResults": 500
}
FieldTypeDefaultDescription
monthstringlatestlatest or a specific month like July 2026
threadIdstringOverride: parse a specific HN thread item ID
remoteOnlybooleanfalseOnly return remote / hybrid listings
keywordsarray[]Only return listings matching ANY keyword
maxResultsinteger500Max listings to return (1-1000)

Use cases

  • Build or fill a niche job board from HN's high-signal hiring thread
  • Recruiters: filter remote + stack in seconds instead of scrolling 400 comments
  • Job seekers: get a filterable spreadsheet of every listing matching your stack
  • Market research: track hiring trends, salary bands, and in-demand tech over months
  • AI/RAG datasets of real job postings

Pricing

Pay Per Event:

  • $0.01 per structured job listing returned

You only pay for listings actually returned (after your filters).

Notes

  • Source: official Hacker News Firebase API + Algolia HN Search (thread discovery). No HTML scraping of the website, no proxies.
  • Parsing follows the community Company | Role | Location | REMOTE | Salary | URL convention and degrades gracefully when a post doesn't.