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🔍📰 Hacker News Search Scraper | Algolia Search | Stories, Comments, Ask HN, Show HN & Jobs | Apify Actor

🚀 Search Hacker News in Seconds (No Code)

The Hacker News Search Scraper (Apify Actor) is a powerful, scalable, and SEO-optimized scraping solution designed to search public Hacker News content through the official Algolia Hacker News Search API.

Search across Stories, Comments, Ask HN, Show HN, Launch HN, Jobs, Polls, or All content using bulk keywords, then collect structured datasets including titles, URLs, authors, scores, comments, publication dates, rankings, story IDs, and much more.

Perfect for startup intelligence, AI research, developer trends, market research, content monitoring, news aggregation, LLM datasets, and automation workflows.

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🔥 Why This Hacker News Search Scraper?

✔ Best Hacker News Search Scraper on Apify

✔ Bulk Keyword Search

✔ Multiple Search Types

✔ Powered by Algolia Search

✔ Stories & Comments

✔ Ask HN, Show HN & Launch HN

✔ Jobs & Polls

✔ Date Range Filters

✔ Sort by Date or Popularity

✔ Fast & Scalable Extraction

✔ JSON / CSV / Excel Ready

✔ No Coding Required

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🎯 What This Scraper Does

This Apify Actor searches public Hacker News content using one or multiple keywords.

Every keyword is automatically combined with every selected Search Type.

Example:

• AI + Stories
• AI + Comments
• AI + Ask HN

Each combination is processed independently and returns up to max_items_per_choice results.

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📌 Supported Search Types

✅ All

✅ Stories

✅ Comments

✅ Ask HN

✅ Show HN

✅ Launch HN

✅ Jobs

✅ Polls

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📌 Core Features

✅ Bulk Keyword Search

✅ Multiple Search Types

✅ Sort by Date

✅ Sort by Popularity

✅ Date Range Filters

✅ Story Search

✅ Comment Search

✅ Ask HN Search

✅ Show HN Search

✅ Launch HN Search

✅ Jobs Search

✅ Poll Search

✅ Authors

✅ Scores

✅ Domains

✅ Publication Dates

✅ Comments Count

✅ Structured Output

✅ High-Speed Cloud Scraping

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⚡ Input Configuration (Simple & Powerful)

🔥 BULK SEARCH MODE (SEO BOOST 🚀)

{
  "keywords": [
    "AI",
    "OpenAI",
    "Startup"
  ],
  "search_type": [
    "story",
    "comment"
  ],
  "sort_by": "byPopularity",
  "date_range": "pastMonth",
  "max_items_per_choice": 100
}

Simply enter one or more keywords, choose one or multiple search types, then select your preferred sorting and date range.

Each keyword × search type combination is processed independently.

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📊 Extracted Data

Field	Description
item_id	Hacker News item ID
item_type	Story, Comment, Ask HN, Job, etc.
search_keyword	Search keyword
search_type	Selected search type
sort_by	Search sorting
date_range	Date filter
position_index	Position in results
title	Story title
url	Original URL
domain	Website domain
score	Points
author	Author username
age_text	Relative publication time
published_date	Publication date
comments_count	Number of comments
comment_text	Comment or description
comment_html	HTML version
parent_id	Parent item ID
story_id	Story ID
story_title	Parent story title
hn_item_url	Hacker News discussion URL
scraped_at	Extraction timestamp

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💡 Use Cases

Perfect for:

🤖 AI & LLM Datasets

🚀 Startup Intelligence

📰 Tech News Monitoring

💻 Developer Research

📈 Trend Analysis

📊 Market Intelligence

🔍 Open Source Monitoring

📚 Academic Research

📢 Content Discovery

⚙️ Automation Workflows

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🚀 Key Features

⚡ Bulk Keyword Search

🔍 Multiple Search Types

📰 Stories

💬 Comments

❓ Ask HN

🚀 Show HN

🛠 Launch HN

💼 Jobs

📊 Popularity & Date Sorting

📅 Date Filters

👤 Authors

⭐ Scores

🌐 Domains

📊 Structured Output

🔁 Reliable Cloud Execution

💾 Export-Ready Datasets

⚙️ Enterprise-Ready Apify Actor

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📤 Export Formats

✔ JSON

✔ CSV

✔ Excel (XLSX)

✔ XML

✔ HTML

✔ RSS

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📦 Example Output

{
  "item_id": "45896321",
  "item_type": "story",
  "search_keyword": "AI",
  "search_type": "story",
  "sort_by": "byPopularity",
  "date_range": "pastMonth",
  "position_index": 1,
  "title": "Open-source AI framework released",
  "url": "https://example.com/article",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "score": 523,
  "author": "johndoe",
  "published_date": "2026-08-07T15:42:00Z",
  "comments_count": 84,
  "hn_item_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45896321",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-07T16:01:15Z"
}

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🔥 Why This is the BEST Hacker News Search Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify Search Ranking

✔ Bulk Keyword Support

✔ Multiple Search Types

✔ Date & Popularity Filters

✔ Rich Story Metadata

✔ Stories & Comments

✔ Ask HN, Show HN & Launch HN

✔ Structured Export-Ready Datasets

✔ Enterprise-Ready Scalability

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💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a pay-per-result pricing model.

You only pay for successfully extracted search results.

💳 Price: $0.29 / 1,000 results

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❓ FAQ

Can I search multiple keywords?

Yes.

Bulk keyword mode is fully supported.

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Can I search multiple content types at once?

Yes.

Each keyword is combined with every selected search type automatically.

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Which content types are supported?

• Stories
• Comments
• Ask HN
• Show HN
• Launch HN
• Jobs
• Polls
• All Content

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Can I filter by date?

Yes.

Supported filters include:

• All Time
• Last 24 Hours
• Past Week
• Past Month
• Past Year

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Can I sort results?

Yes.

Choose between:

• Date (Newest First)
• Popularity

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Can I scrape thousands of results?

Yes.

Increase max_items_per_choice and add as many keywords as needed.

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Is coding required?

No.

Everything runs directly on Apify.

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Can I export the data?

Yes.

Supports JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML and RSS.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent data extraction solution and is not affiliated with Hacker News, Algolia, or Y Combinator.

Users are responsible for complying with the applicable Terms of Service and all relevant laws.

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🌐 Public Data Extraction

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