Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 story scrapeds

HN Top Stories Scraper

Scrape Hacker News top stories — extract title, URL, score, author, comment count, and submission time. Monitor HN front page in real time. CSV/JSON.

Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 story scrapeds

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Web Data Labs

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Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Jobs, Ask HN & Show HN API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use HN Top Stories Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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HN Top Stories Scraper API in Python

HN Top Stories Scraper API in JavaScript

HN Top Stories Scraper OpenAPI definition

HN Top Stories Scraper API

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