Hacker News Scraper - Front Page & Comments
Fetch the Hacker News front page or any thread as clean Markdown. Useful for trend monitoring, newsletters and LLM summaries. A lightweight Hacker News API alternative.
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Yes. There’s the official Firebase API and the Algolia HN Search API. The Firebase API returns IDs that you have to walk one item at a time. This task returns the whole page or thread in one call.
Yes. Pass any news.ycombinator.com/item?id=… URL to get the post and its comments as Markdown.
The front page, Ask HN, Show HN, newest, best, and any individual thread.
Yes. Each run fetches the live page. Algolia, by comparison, is indexed periodically.