You can access the Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "searchQueries": [
12        "python"
13    ],
14    "proxyConfiguration": {
15        "useApifyProxy": false
16    }
17};
18
19// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
20const run = await client.actor("chrisp1211/hackernews-scraper-max").call(input);
21
22// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
23console.log('Results from dataset');
24console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
25const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
26items.forEach((item) => {
27    console.dir(item);
28});
29
30// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API) API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API) API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API) API in Python

Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API) API through CLI

Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API) OpenAPI definition

Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API) API

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Search Hacker News via the free Algolia API. One row per hit: title, author, points, num_comments, URL, tags, story id. Filter by tags (`story`, `front_page`, `show_hn`, `ask_hn`, `author_xxx`, `story_xxx`) and an optional date window. For trend trackers, sentiment analysts, launch monitoring.