Export HN Comments Flat for CSV & Excel
Created by
Omar Eldeeb
Actor
Hacker News Scraper
Scrape Hacker News stories with flattened comment arrays and depth fields that export cleanly to CSV or Excel for spreadsheet analysis.
Hacker News Scraperconstructive_calm/hacker-news-scraper
ID
Title
Author
Points
+3 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
Scraping mode(required):topstories
Max items:10
Include comments:true
Flatten comments:true
Max comment depth:3
Output fields
ID
Title
Author
Points
Comment count
HN thread
Comments
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Create your Apify account to access the Hacker News Scraper.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
