# Hacker News Front Page Scraper: Live Top Stories

**Use case:** 

A snapshot of the current Hacker News front page: titles, points, authors, and comment counts for every story ranking right now, returned as structured JSON.

## Input

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "tags": "front_page",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "maxItems": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "Author",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "points": {
    "label": "Points",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "numComments": {
    "label": "Comments",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "hnUrl": {
    "label": "HN Item",
    "format": "link"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Hacker News Scraper](https://apify.com/dami_studio/hacker-news-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/dami_studio/hacker-news-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.