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Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Search & Who Is Hiring

Deprecated

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Hacker News stories, comments and Who Is Hiring job posts as JSON. Read the front page feeds, search by keyword and date, or turn the monthly hiring thread into rows with company, role, location, remote, salary and stack. Only-new mode for alerts.

Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 row scrapeds

Rating

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(0)

Developer

Xuan An Nguyen

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Monthly active users

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Search & Who Is Hiring 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "mode": "feed",
10    "feeds": ["top"],
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("anxuanng/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments & Who Is Hiring API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Search & Who Is Hiring API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

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Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Search & Who Is Hiring API through CLI

Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Search & Who Is Hiring OpenAPI definition

Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Search & Who Is Hiring API

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