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Scrape and monitor Hacker News — search stories/comments/jobs, front page, full comment trees, author karma, and keyword mention alerts. Official Algolia API, no key. From $1/1,000 results.

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Hacker News Scraper — Monitor & Search API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News Monitor & Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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