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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Jobs

Extract Hacker News stories, comments, and job posts. Full-text search via Algolia with date filtering. Scrape top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs. Filter by score and author. Uses official Firebase + Algolia APIs. No API key needed. Export JSON, CSV, Excel.

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Jobs 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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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "storyIds": [] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("cryptosignals/hackernews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments, Search & Jobs API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Jobs API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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