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$2.00 / 1,000 item scrapeds

Hacker News Scraper

Search and scrape Hacker News stories, comments and discussions via the official HN Algolia API. Filter by keyword, type, points, date. No API key.

Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 item scrapeds

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Mehmet Kut

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2 days ago

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🎯 What it does

Search HN by keyword, or grab the latest front-page stories
Filter by content type: stories, comments, Show HN, Ask HN, polls, jobs
Filter by minimum points and sort by relevance or date
Optionally fetch top comments for each story
Returns: title, URL, author, points, comment count, text, timestamps, HN link

💡 Use cases

Tech trend monitoring — track what's hot in a topic (AI, startups, a language)
Content research — find top discussions for a keyword
Sentiment / opinion mining — feed comments into LLMs
Competitor / product monitoring — get alerted to mentions
Lead generation — find founders and devs discussing a space
Dataset building — collect HN data for analysis / ML

📥 Input

Field	Type	Description
`queries`	array	Search keywords (empty = front page)
`tags`	string	story / comment / show_hn / ask_hn / poll / job / front_page
`sortBy`	string	relevance or date
`minPoints`	integer	Minimum points filter
`maxItems`	integer	Max items to scrape
`includeComments`	boolean	Fetch top comments per story

Example input

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence"],
  "tags": "story",
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "minPoints": 100,
  "maxItems": 200
}

📤 Output

{
  "objectID": "38912345",
  "title": "Show HN: I built an AI agent framework",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "author": "pg",
  "points": 2346,
  "numComments": 951,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38912345"
}

⚡ Performance

Uses the HN Algolia Search API directly — no browser, no API key, no quota. Blazing fast.

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