Hacker News Scraper – Search Stories, Comments & Show HN
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Hacker News Scraper – Search Stories, Comments & Show HN
Search Hacker News stories and comments by keyword, date range, points and type (story, comment, Ask HN, Show HN, front page) via the official HN Algolia API. Brand monitoring, trend research, lead discovery. $1 per 1,000 results.
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Hacker News Scraper – Search Stories, Comments, Ask HN & Show HN
Search all of Hacker News by keyword and get structured stories and comments (title, URL, points, comment count, author, text, date). The Actor uses the official HN Search API (Algolia), so it scrapes no HTML, is fast and does not get blocked.
Use cases
- Brand and competitor monitoring: schedule a daily run on your product name with
sort=date, sinceDays=1 - Trend and market research: find top Show HN launches in your niche (
type=show_hn, minPoints=50) - Lead discovery: find people asking for a tool like yours in Ask HN threads and comments
- AI and RAG datasets: collect discussion text for analysis
Input
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| queries | Keywords (several allowed) |
| type | story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn, front_page, all |
| sort | relevance or date |
| sinceDays | Only the last N days |
| minPoints | Minimum score |
| maxResultsPerQuery | Up to 1,000 |
Output
📊 Want these results in Google Sheets? Send them straight to a Sheet with Google Sheets Sync – run it after this Actor, or add it on this Actor's Integrations tab so every run exports automatically.
Pricing (pay per event)
$0.0005 per run start plus $0.001 per result ($1 per 1,000). Example: a daily brand monitor that returns 30 mentions costs about $0.03 per day.
Integrations
Export as CSV, JSON or Excel, or send results to Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n with Apify integrations and webhooks.
Need the data done for you?
If you'd rather not set up runs yourself, the UK company behind these tools (GPT Shop Ltd) offers a fixed-price done-for-you scrape. Tell us the website and the fields you need, and you get a clean CSV or Google Sheet within 48 hours of the confirmed brief, up to 5,000 rows, for £149 or $179. If we can't get the data, you're refunded in full. See the done-for-you scraper service
