Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments, Search & Who Is Hiring
Pricing
Pay per event
Scrape Hacker News: front page, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and job feeds, full-text search with date and points filters, full comment threads, and parsed Who is hiring? jobs (company, role, location, remote, salary). Official APIs, no login. $0.15 per 1,000 items.
You can access the Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments, 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.
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