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Hacker News Scraper Pro — Stories, Jobs, Show HN, Ask HN

Comprehensive Hacker News scraper. Get top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, Who's Hiring jobs, comments, and search results. Uses the official HN Firebase API + Algolia search — no auth required. Export JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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Pay per usage

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Chak Man Fung

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper Pro — Stories, Jobs, Show HN, Ask HN programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("diverse_venture/hackernews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper Pro — Stories, Jobs, Show HN, Ask HN API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper Pro — Stories, Jobs, Show HN, Ask HN API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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