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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

Rating

0.0

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Developer

deriverge s.r.o.

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

3 days ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Social media

Developer tools

Row type

type

Required

Kind of row: story, or comment when includeComments is on. Fields of the other type are absent.

Type:string

Example:

story

Record key

key

Required

Stable key of the row: story: or comment:. The newOnly mode compares runs by this key.

Type:string

Example:

story:22180559

Item ID

Required

Hacker News item ID of the story or comment.

Type:integer

Example:

22180559

Story kind

kind

Optional

Kind of story: story (a link), ask (Ask HN and Tell HN), show (Show HN), job or poll. Story rows only.

Type:string

Example:

story

Title

title

Optional

Title of the story. Story rows only.

Type:string

Example:

Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

Link

url

Optional

External link the story points to. Null for text posts such as Ask HN. Story rows only.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping-and-technically-prohibited-it/

Link domain

domain

Optional

Host of that link without www, for example github.com. Null for text posts. Story rows only.

Type:string | null

Example:

parsers.me

Text

text

Optional

On story rows the body of a text post (Ask HN, Show HN without a link, job ads) as plain text, null for plain link stories. On comment rows the comment text as plain text.

Type:string | null

Example:

I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like...

Author

author

Optional

Hacker News username of the submitter or commenter. Null when the account was deleted.

Type:string | null

Example:

jdoe

Points

points

Optional

Score (upvotes) of the story. Null when not shown. Story rows only.

Type:integer | null

Example:

1057

Comments

commentsCount

Optional

Number of comments in the whole thread, as Hacker News counts them, even when only part of the thread was read. Story rows only.

Type:integer | null

Example:

388

Created at

createdAt

Optional

When the story or comment was posted, as an ISO 8601 UTC timestamp.

Type:string | null

Example:

2020-01-29T14:06:37.000Z

Hacker News link

hnUrl

Optional

Link to the item on news.ycombinator.com.

Type:string

Example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180559

Source

source

Optional

Where the story came from; always search in this actor. Story rows only.

Type:string

Example:

Rank

rank

Optional

Position of the story in the search results, 1 being first. Story rows only.

Type:integer | null

Example:

Matched query

matchedQuery

Optional

Search query that found the story. Null for searches run with filters only. Story rows only.

Type:string | null

Example:

web scraping

Comments read

commentsRead

Optional

How many comments of this story the run read and returned as rows, up to Maximum comments per story. Null when comments are off. Story rows only.

Type:integer | null

Example:

100

Story ID

storyId

Optional

ID of the story the comment belongs to. Comment rows only.

Type:integer

Example:

Story title

storyTitle

Optional

Title of the story the comment belongs to. Null when unknown. Comment rows only.

Type:string | null

Example:

Y Combinator

Parent comment ID

parentId

Optional

ID of the comment this one replies to; null for a top-level comment. Comment rows only.

Type:integer | null

Example:

Thread depth

depth

Optional

Nesting level in the thread: 0 for a top-level comment, 1 for a direct reply, and so on. Comment rows only.

Type:integer

Example:

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