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Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Ask/Show HN, Comments

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Search Hacker News stories, Show HN, Ask HN and comments, or pull the live front page. Each row has the title, link, author, points, comment count, the text and the HN thread link. Filter by minimum points or comments. No account or API key. $1.00 per 1,000 items.

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Ask/Show HN, Comments 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 API & Integrations 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 = { "query": "openai" }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("dami_studio/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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 API - Stories and Comments Export API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Ask/Show HN, Comments API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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