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Hacker News Scraper: Top Stories, Show HN & Hiring Leads

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Scrape Hacker News front page top stories, Show HN launches, Ask HN questions, Who is Hiring job leads, and keyword searches. Fast, structured, zero login required.

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Rahmad Rizki

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper: Top Stories, Show HN & Hiring Leads 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.

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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
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("authoritative_glen/hackernews-trends-stories-leads").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper: Top Stories, Show HN & Hiring Leads API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper: Top Stories, Show HN & Hiring Leads API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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