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Hacker News Scraper

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Search and scrape Hacker News stories, comments, Show HN and Ask HN via the public API. No proxy, no browser.

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$1.00 / 1,000 item scrapeds

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brandon nadeau

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What it does

Give it a search query (or just a tag like front_page) and it returns matching HN items as clean, structured rows — with points, comment counts, authors, timestamps, and direct links to both the external URL and the HN thread.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`query`	string	Keyword(s) to search. Leave blank to fetch latest/front-page items by tag.
`tags`	string	Item type: `story`, `comment`, `poll`, `show_hn`, `ask_hn`, or `front_page`. Default `story`.
`sortByDate`	boolean	On = newest first. Off = relevance/popularity. Default `false`.
`minPoints`	integer	Only items with at least this many points. `0` = no minimum.
`minComments`	integer	Only items with at least this many comments. `0` = no minimum.
`maxResults`	integer	Max items to return. `0` = as many as the API returns. Default `100`.

Example input

{
    "query": "open source AI",
    "tags": "story",
    "sortByDate": false,
    "minPoints": 50,
    "maxResults": 200
}

Output

{
    "id": "39842011",
    "type": "story",
    "title": "Show HN: I built an open-source AI tool",
    "url": "https://example.com/my-tool",
    "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842011",
    "author": "janedoe",
    "points": 412,
    "numComments": 137,
    "createdAt": "2026-04-02T14:21:00.000Z",
    "text": null,
    "storyTitle": null
}

Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or HTML, or pull via the Apify API.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing — a small charge per item scraped, platform usage included. A run returning 1,000 items costs roughly the per-item price × 1,000.

Use cases

Brand & competitor monitoring — track every HN mention of a product or company.
Lead generation — find people discussing a problem your product solves.
Trend research — surface the top stories on a topic by points over time.
Show HN tracking — monitor new product launches in your space.

Notes & limitations

Relevance search returns up to roughly 1,000 results per query. To go deeper, narrow with query, minPoints, or run separate date-windowed searches with sortByDate on.
Timestamps are in UTC.

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