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Hacker News Search Scraper

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Hacker News stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs and polls that match your search terms, with points, comment count, link, date and optional comment threads. Filter by date, minimum points and comments, or schedule it as a keyword alert that returns only new stories.

Pricing

from $0.25 / 1,000 stories

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Developer

deriverge s.r.o.

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

4 days ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Social media

Developer tools

Search terms

queries

Optional

Full-text search over titles, links and text. An empty term with a tag or date filter returns everything that matches the filter.

Type:array

What to search

searchTags

Optional

Ask HN and Show HN are subsets of stories; front page means stories that reached the front page.

Type:string

Default:story

Options:

storyask_hnshow_hnjobpollfront_page

Order

sortBy

Optional

Relevance ranks by match and popularity; newest first is what a monitor wants. An empty search term always uses newest first.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedate

Published after

publishedAfter

Optional

Only items created after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

Type:string

Published before

publishedBefore

Optional

Only items created before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

Type:string

Minimum points

minPoints

Optional

Only items with at least this many points.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Minimum comments

minComments

Optional

Only items with at least this many comments.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum results per search term

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

Results are read a hundred at a time from the top of the ranking.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:100

Include comments

includeComments

Optional

Return the comment tree of every story as rows with author, date, text, depth and parent. Charged per comment.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Maximum comments per story

maxCommentsPerStory

Optional

Replies count towards the cap; the tree is walked from the top.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:100

Keywords (any of)

keywords

Optional

Keep only stories whose title, text or link contain at least one of these words, case-insensitive. Dropped stories are never charged.

Type:array

Return only rows new since the last run

newOnly

Optional

Keeps a snapshot per watch name (or per saved task) and returns only stories that were not there before. Schedule it hourly and you have a keyword alert for Hacker News that bills only for new stories.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Watch name

watchName

Optional

Name of the snapshot used by the new-only mode, for example "ai-alert". Runs from a saved task get a snapshot automatically even without a name.

Type:string

Maximum rows

maxItems

Optional

Hard cap on returned rows in the run.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:10000

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