# Hacker News Ask HN Extractor

**Use case:** 

Extract Ask HN stories from Hacker News with authors, scores, comments, item URLs, and discussion metadata.

## Input

```json
{
  "section": "ask",
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxStories": 50
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "rank": {
    "label": "#",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "points": {
    "label": "Points",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "Author",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "commentCount": {
    "label": "Comments",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "domain": {
    "label": "Domain",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "age": {
    "label": "Posted",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Hacker News Scraper](https://apify.com/automation-lab/hackernews-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/automation-lab/hackernews-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.