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📰💻 Hacker News Scraper | Bulk Section Scraper | Stories, Comments, Ask HN, Show HN & Jobs | Apify Actor

🚀 Extract Hacker News Data in Seconds (No Code)

The Hacker News Scraper (Apify Actor) is a powerful, scalable, and SEO-optimized scraping solution designed to extract public Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN posts, Show HN projects, jobs, and discussions from multiple sections in bulk.

Scrape Newest, Front Page, New Comments, Ask HN, Show HN, and Jobs while collecting structured datasets including titles, URLs, scores, authors, comments, domains, publication dates, rankings, story IDs, and much more.

Perfect for startup intelligence, tech trend monitoring, AI datasets, market research, developer analytics, content aggregation, and automation workflows.

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🔥 Why This Hacker News Scraper?

✔ Best Hacker News Scraper on Apify

✔ Supports Multiple Sections

✔ Bulk Section Scraping

✔ Stories & Comments

✔ Ask HN & Show HN

✔ Jobs Section

✔ Automatic Pagination

✔ Fast & Scalable Extraction

✔ JSON / CSV / Excel Ready

✔ No Coding Required

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🎯 What This Scraper Does

This Apify Actor extracts public content directly from Hacker News.

Each selected section is processed independently and returns up to max_items_per_choice items.

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📌 Supported Sections

✅ Newest

✅ Front Page

✅ New Comments

✅ Ask HN

✅ Show HN

✅ Jobs

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📌 Core Features

✅ Bulk Section Scraping

✅ Stories

✅ Comments

✅ Ask HN Posts

✅ Show HN Projects

✅ Job Listings

✅ Story Rankings

✅ Scores (Points)

✅ Authors

✅ Domains

✅ Publication Dates

✅ Comment Counts

✅ Story URLs

✅ HN Item URLs

✅ Structured Output

✅ High-Speed Cloud Scraping

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⚡ Input Configuration (Simple & Powerful)

🔥 BULK SECTION MODE (SEO BOOST 🚀)

{
  "choices": [
    "newest",
    "show",
    "ask"
  ],
  "max_items_per_choice": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

Simply select one or multiple Hacker News sections.

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

Residential proxies are recommended for the best reliability.

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📊 Extracted Data

Field	Description
item_id	Hacker News item ID
item_type	Story, Comment, Job, etc.
section	Source section
rank	Story ranking
position_index	Position within the page
title	Story title
url	Original URL
domain	Website domain
score	Points
author	Author username
published_date	Publication date
age_text	Relative publication time
comments_count	Number of comments
comment_text	Comment text
comment_html	HTML version of comment
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:

📰 Tech News Monitoring

🚀 Startup Discovery

💻 Developer Trends

📈 Market Intelligence

🤖 AI Training Datasets

📊 Content Aggregation

🔍 Open Source Monitoring

📚 Research Projects

📉 Trend Analysis

⚙️ Automation Workflows

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🚀 Key Features

⚡ Bulk Section Support

📰 Stories

💬 Comments

❓ Ask HN

🚀 Show HN

💼 Jobs

⭐ Scores

👤 Authors

🌐 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",
  "section": "newest",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Open-source AI framework released",
  "url": "https://example.com/article",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "score": 287,
  "author": "johndoe",
  "published_date": "2026-08-07T15:42:00Z",
  "comments_count": 64,
  "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 Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify Search Ranking

✔ Bulk Section Support

✔ Stories & Comments

✔ Ask HN, Show HN & Jobs

✔ Rich Story Metadata

✔ Scores & Rankings

✔ 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 items.

💳 Price: $0.19 / 1,000 results

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❓ FAQ

Can I scrape multiple Hacker News sections?

Yes.

Bulk section mode is fully supported.

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Which sections are supported?

• Newest
• Front Page
• New Comments
• Ask HN
• Show HN
• Jobs

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Does it support pagination?

Yes.

The scraper automatically collects items until the requested limit is reached.

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Can I scrape thousands of items?

Yes.

Increase max_items_per_choice and select as many sections as needed.

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Are Residential proxies recommended?

Yes.

Residential proxies provide the best scraping reliability.

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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 or Y Combinator.

Users are responsible for complying with Hacker News' Terms of Service and all applicable laws.

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🚀 Stay tuned.

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🌍 PrimeScrape Ecosystem

Built for large-scale data extraction, automation, AI datasets, and business intelligence.

📰 Tech Intelligence

🚀 Startup Monitoring

💻 Developer Analytics

📊 Market Research

🤖 AI Training Datasets

⚙️ Automation Pipelines

🌐 Public Data Extraction

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📬 Support

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