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Hn Who Is Hiring Scraper

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Hn Who Is Hiring Scraper

Hn Who Is Hiring Scraper

Extract every job post from the monthly Hacker News "Who Is Hiring?" thread into clean JSON. Auto-detects the latest thread. Parses company, role, salary, remote status, tech stack, and apply link. Perfect for job seekers, recruiters, and developers building job aggregators.

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Hacker News: Who Is Hiring Scraper

Extracts and parses every job post from the monthly Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring?" thread into clean, structured JSON — no manual reading required.

Why this exists

Each monthly HN hiring thread contains hundreds of raw comment-style job posts. Finding relevant roles means reading thousands of lines of unstructured text. This actor does it for you automatically.

Use Cases

  • Job seekers — filter by tech stack, remote status, or salary in seconds
  • Recruiters — monitor who's hiring in the HN community each month
  • Market researchers — track hiring trends, in-demand tech stacks, salary ranges over time
  • Newsletter writers — curate and republish structured job listings

Input

FieldTypeDescription
monthstringMonth to scrape e.g. March. Leave blank for the latest thread.
yearintegerYear e.g. 2026. Leave blank for the latest thread.
maxPostsintegerMax job posts to extract (default: 200, max: 1000)

Output

FieldDescription
companyHiring company name
rolesJob titles extracted from the post
salarySalary range if mentioned
remoteWork arrangement (Remote / Hybrid / Onsite)
tech_stackTechnologies mentioned
applyURL or email to apply
hn_linkDirect link to the original HN comment
threadThe thread this was scraped from

Example Output

{
"company": "Stripe",
"roles": "Software Engineer, Backend Engineer",
"salary": "$180k - $220k",
"remote": "Hybrid",
"tech_stack": "Ruby, Go, PostgreSQL, AWS",
"apply": "https://stripe.com/jobs",
"hn_link": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123456",
"thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"
}