# AI Startup Trends & Discussions on Hacker News

**Use case:** 

Discover AI-related startup trends and discussions on Hacker News. Extract titles, URLs, authors, scores, comments, publication dates, and domains to research emerging technologies, products, and startup activity.

## Input

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "AI"
  ],
  "search_type": [
    "all",
    "story"
  ],
  "sort_by": "byDate",
  "date_range": "all",
  "max_items_per_choice": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "item_id": {
    "label": "Item ID",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "item_type": {
    "label": "Type",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "search_keyword": {
    "label": "Keyword",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "search_type": {
    "label": "Search Type",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "sort_by": {
    "label": "Sort By",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "date_range": {
    "label": "Date Range",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "position_index": {
    "label": "Position",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "domain": {
    "label": "Domain",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "score": {
    "label": "Score (points)",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "Author",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "age_text": {
    "label": "Age (text)",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "published_date": {
    "label": "Published Date",
    "format": "date"
  },
  "comments_count": {
    "label": "Comments Count",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "comment_text": {
    "label": "Comment/Description (Text)",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "comment_html": {
    "label": "Comment/Description (HTML)",
    "format": "html"
  },
  "parent_id": {
    "label": "Parent ID",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "story_id": {
    "label": "Story ID",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "story_title": {
    "label": "Story Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "hn_item_url": {
    "label": "HN Item URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "scraped_at": {
    "label": "Scraped At",
    "format": "date"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Hacker News (By Keywords) Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🔍📰](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator/hacker-news-by-keywords-scraper-low-cost.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator/hacker-news-by-keywords-scraper-low-cost.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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