Hacker News Jobs Scraper: Who is Hiring, Classified

Get every job from Hacker News Who is Hiring, structured and classified: seniority, area, salary, remote, remote-open-to-Brazil. Point it at a month (or leave it on latest) and get one clean row per job comment instead of 300 free-text comments to read by hand.

Built by Constancio Dev, a small engineering studio focused on data pipelines and B2B automation. constanciodev.com.br

Why this Actor

• The classification is the point. Other Who is Hiring scrapers return the comment text split on |. This one also tells you the seniority, the area (backend, frontend, data, ML/AI, DevOps and more), the remote_scope and, for people who live in Brazil, remote_open_to_brazil. You can filter on all of them, so a run returns only the jobs you could actually take.
• Official API, no browser, no proxy. It reads the public Hacker News API (MIT licensed, Firebase). No login, no scraping of web pages.
• Any month. latest finds the newest "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread by itself, and YYYY-MM reads an older one.
• Tolerant parser. The usual format is

  Company | Role | Location | Remote/Onsite | Salary | URL
  , but people write it in any order, with dashes instead of pipes, as Role: ... lines or in plain prose. Each piece of the header is classified by what it says, not by its position.
• Monitor mode for schedules. Run it daily and pay only for comments that are new since the last run. The Actor remembers each comment for 90 days.
• Safe to share. Contact e-mails inside comments are masked (***@company.com).

Input

Field	What it does
month	latest (default) or YYYY-MM, for example 2026-09.
keywords	Keep jobs whose role, company or text contains at least one of these words.
remote	Keep only jobs that offer remote work.
remoteOpenToBrazil	Keep only remote jobs a person living in Brazil can take (see Classification).
seniority	intern, junior, mid, senior, staff_plus, manager, unknown. Empty keeps all.
area	backend, frontend, fullstack, data, ml_ai, devops_sre, mobile, security, qa, product, design, other. Empty keeps all.
country	ISO codes or names (US, Germany). Matches any country the post lists.
maxItems	Stop after this many jobs (default 1,000; a month has about 300). 0 means no limit.
includeDescription	Include the cleaned comment text (default: true).
monitorMode	Deliver and charge only comments not delivered by an earlier monitor run.

Example 1: remote jobs open to Brazil, newest month

{
  "month": "latest",
  "remoteOpenToBrazil": true
}

Example 2: senior backend and DevOps jobs in September, mentioning Rust or Go

{
  "month": "2026-09",
  "seniority": ["senior", "staff_plus"],
  "area": ["backend", "devops_sre"],
  "keywords": ["rust", "go"]
}

Example 3: a daily alert with only the new remote jobs

{
  "month": "latest",
  "remote": true,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "includeDescription": false
}

Schedule it once a day. The first run delivers the month so far, and every later run delivers only what was posted since. If you schedule it across a month change, the new thread is picked up by latest on the day it appears.

Output

One dataset item per job comment. Real item from the October 2026 thread (description cut):

{
  "id": "hn:49925063",
  "hn_comment_id": 49925063,
  "hn_thread_id": 49922569,
  "hn_thread": "2026-10",
  "company": "Discord",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer, Application Security",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925063",
  "company_url": null,
  "links": ["https://discord.com/jobs/8656854002"],
  "location": "REMOTE (US West Coast) or San Francisco, CA",
  "country": "US",
  "countries": ["US"],
  "state": "CA",
  "work_model": "remote",
  "employment_type": null,
  "posted_at": "2026-10-01T18:09:56+00:00",
  "salary_min": 196000.0,
  "salary_max": 245000.0,
  "salary_currency": "USD",
  "salary_period": "year",
  "seniority": "senior",
  "area": "security",
  "remote_scope": "remote_country_specific",
  "remote_open_to_brazil": false,
  "years_experience": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-23T16:29:24.655730+00:00",
  "description": "Discord | Senior Software Engineer, Application Security | REMOTE (US West Coast) or San Francisco, CA | $196K-$245K base + equity\nDiscord is where ..."
}

Field	Meaning
hn_comment_id, url	The comment on Hacker News. Apply links the post cites are in links.
company, title	From the header. title is null when the post names no role in its header.
location, country, countries, state	Location as written; the first country found, every country found, and the US state.
work_model	remote, hybrid or onsite. remote when remote is one of the options the post offers.
employment_type	full-time, part-time, contract or internship, when the post says.
salary_*	Range as the post states it, with currency and period. null when it does not say.
seniority	intern, junior, mid, senior, staff_plus, manager or unknown.
area	backend, frontend, fullstack, data, ml_ai, devops_sre, mobile, security, qa, product, design or other.
remote_scope	remote_global, remote_latam_or_americas, remote_country_specific, hybrid, onsite or unknown.
remote_open_to_brazil	true, false, or null when the post does not say.
years_experience	Years of experience required, when stated.

Fields are never guessed: no evidence means null (or unknown).

What the October 2026 thread gave

The thread had 319 top-level comments; 256 were job posts (34 were deleted, 22 flagged dead and 7 were meta comments or off topic). In those 256: 85 state a salary, 144 offer remote work and 19 are remote and open to Brazil. 65 name no role in the header (title: null), and 176 have seniority: unknown because the post lists several roles or states no level.

Classification

Deterministic rules over the role, location and text. No paid API, no AI model: the same post always gets the same answer.

• seniority reads the role first (Senior, Sr., Staff, Principal, Lead, Head of, Director, Intern, Junior, II). With no level in the role, the years of experience the post asks for decide: up to 1 is junior, 2 to 4 is mid, 5 or more is senior. A comment that lists several roles at different levels is unknown.
• area reads the role. Sales, support, recruiting and other non engineering roles are other, and so is an engineering role that names no specialty (plain "Software Engineer") or a comment that lists roles from several areas.
• remote_scope and remote_open_to_brazil combine the header, the location and phrases in the text. remote_open_to_brazil is true for remote jobs open worldwide, in Latin America or the Americas, in Brazil, or in a time zone range that includes UTC-3. It is false for hybrid and onsite jobs and for remote jobs limited to another country or region. A bare "Remote" stays null.

Measured on real comments from the October 2026 thread, labeled by hand reading the text and not the Actor's output. 52 comments guided the rules; 30 more were labeled afterwards and measured before any adjustment.

Field	30 unseen comments	All 82
company	96.7%	98.8%
role (title)	96.7%	98.8%
location	96.7%	97.6%
seniority	90.0%	91.5%
area	96.7%	96.3%
remote_open_to_brazil	90.0%	96.3%

The sample is small and from one month, so treat the numbers as a guide: other months may have more unusual posts. The test suite fails if any field drops below 80%.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay only for jobs delivered to the dataset. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it reaches it.

• $1.80 per 1,000 jobs on the Free plan, and less on paid Apify plans ($1.60 Bronze, $1.10 Silver and above).
• $0.00005 per run start.

A whole monthly thread (about 250 job posts) costs about $0.45 on the Free plan. Monitor mode charges only new comments.

Limits

• One thread per run. Run it twice to compare two months.
• The Actor reads top-level comments only; replies are not jobs.
• Posts written in free prose parse worse than the Company | Role | Location format: the company, location or role may be missing, and then the field is null.
• Many posts list several roles. Their seniority is unknown and their area is other by design, because one value cannot describe all of them. The roles are in title and the text.
• Only the header is read for the role. A post that names its roles only in the body has title: null.
• A comment edited after it was delivered is not delivered again in monitor mode.
• The comment text is the author's. Do not use the data to contact people who did not ask to be contacted; contact e-mails are masked on purpose.

Use cases

• Job seekers outside the US who want only remote jobs they can legally take.
• Recruiters and staffing agencies tracking which companies hire, and for what.
• Newsletters and job boards that need a clean feed of Who is Hiring.
• Hiring trend research: how many senior ML roles, how many remote roles, month by month.

Data source

Hacker News API, MIT licensed. The Actor identifies itself with its own user agent and reads one item per comment.

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