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Hacker News Scraper - Search Stories & Comments

Search Hacker News stories using the free Algolia HN API. Returns story titles, points, authors, URLs, comment counts, and creation dates. No authentication or browser required — pure JSON API with zero bot-detection risk.

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from $3.00 / 1,000 results

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Chris Drake

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Why use this actor?

Free API — uses Algolia's public HN search API, no API key needed
Fast — pure HTTP, no browser rendering, results in seconds
Cheap — minimal compute, low per-result pricing
Structured output — clean JSON with all story metadata

Use cases

Track mentions of your product/brand on Hacker News
Monitor trending stories by topic for content curation
Extract story data for analysis (points, authors, engagement patterns)
Build a dashboard of competitor mentions
Feed AI/LLM pipelines with fresh tech discussion data

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
`query`	string	Search query (keyword or phrase)	`""`
`tags`	string	Filter by type: `story`, `comment`, or empty for both	`story`
`numHits`	integer	Number of results to return (max 1000)	`20`

Output

Each result contains:

Field	Description
`objectID`	Unique HN story ID
`title`	Story title
`author`	Submitter username
`points`	Upvote count
`num_comments`	Comment count
`url`	External link (if story links to one)
`created_at`	ISO timestamp
`story_text`	Self-post text (if text post)

Example input

{
    "query": "OpenAI",
    "tags": "story",
    "numHits": 20
}

Example output

{
    "objectID": "38712345",
    "title": "OpenAI announces new model",
    "author": "pg",
    "points": 5710,
    "num_comments": 842,
    "url": "https://example.com/article",
    "created_at": "2025-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Tips

Use specific queries for better results: "transformers" instead of "AI"
Set tags to comment to search within comments
Increase numHits for broader searches
Results are sorted by relevance by default

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