Hacker News Who Is Hiring Jobs Parser

Extract structured job leads from Hacker News monthly Ask HN: Who is hiring? threads.

This Apify Actor turns top-level hiring comments into spreadsheet-ready records with company, locations, remote/visa/intern flags, salary hints, roles, tech keywords, contact links, and the original Hacker News permalink.

Who should use this

• Recruiters and sourcers looking for startup hiring leads
• Job seekers tracking remote-friendly engineering, product, data, design, and AI roles
• Talent marketplaces building a monthly HN job feed
• Market researchers tracking which startups are hiring and what stacks they use
• Indie hackers or newsletter operators curating tech job opportunities

Why this Actor

Generic Hacker News scrapers return raw stories and comments. Recruiters, job seekers, and market researchers usually need one row per hiring post with normalized fields they can filter in CSV, Google Sheets, Airtable, or an ATS workflow.

Best first run

Parse the latest monthly HN hiring thread:

{
  "maxJobs": 500,
  "requireHiringSignal": true,
  "includeRawHtml": false
}

If you need a specific month, paste the HN thread URL into threadUrl.

Scheduled monitoring examples

Use an Apify schedule shortly after the monthly thread appears to create a recurring hiring-intelligence workflow.

Monthly startup hiring feed

{
  "maxJobs": 1000,
  "requireHiringSignal": true,
  "includeRawHtml": false
}

Suggested schedule: monthly. Export the dataset to CSV, Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, or your own job board.

Remote engineering role watch

{
  "maxJobs": 1000,
  "requireHiringSignal": true,
  "includeRawHtml": false
}

Suggested workflow: filter output rows where remote=true, then filter roles and techKeywords for your target stack.

Compensation and visa-signal research

{
  "maxJobs": 2000,
  "requireHiringSignal": true,
  "includeRawHtml": false
}

Suggested workflow: filter rows where compensationSignal=true, salaryText is not empty, or visa=true.

Input

{
  "maxJobs": 200,
  "requireHiringSignal": true
}

Optional fields:

• threadUrl: parse a specific HN thread URL.
• threadId: parse a specific HN item ID.
• includeRawHtml: include the original HN HTML for custom parsing.

If neither threadUrl nor threadId is provided, the Actor auto-detects the latest monthly Ask HN: Who is hiring? thread using the public HN Algolia API.

Output

Each row is one top-level hiring comment:

{
  "threadId": 45123456,
  "commentId": 45124567,
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124567",
  "company": "Example AI",
  "headline": "Example AI | Backend Engineer, Product Designer | Remote (US/EU) | Full-time",
  "locations": ["Remote", "US", "EU"],
  "remote": true,
  "onsite": false,
  "visa": false,
  "internship": false,
  "salaryText": "$120k-$180k",
  "compensationSignal": true,
  "roles": ["Backend Engineer", "Product Designer"],
  "techKeywords": ["python", "typescript", "postgres"],
  "contactUrls": ["https://example.com/careers"],
  "author": "hn_user",
  "createdAt": "2026-06-01T15:20:00.000Z",
  "text": "Plain text version of the post...",
  "source": "hacker-news-who-is-hiring",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Build a monthly tech job lead list.
• Track which startups are hiring across HN.
• Filter remote-friendly roles by stack, region, salary, or visa signal.
• Feed fresh hiring posts into Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, or an internal job board.

Why this Actor instead of a generic HN scraper

Generic HN scrapers return raw comments. This Actor is tuned for the monthly Who is hiring? workflow:

• Detects the latest monthly hiring thread automatically
• Parses top-level hiring comments into one row per job lead
• Extracts company, role, location, remote, onsite, visa, internship, and salary signals
• Pulls out tech keywords for stack-based filtering
• Extracts contact and careers URLs
• Saves direct HN permalinks for each hiring post
• Produces spreadsheet-ready data for recruiting, job search, and market research

If you only need raw HN comments, use a generic scraper. If you want structured hiring leads, use this Actor.

Practical workflow

1. Run after the monthly HN Who is hiring? thread is posted.
2. Keep requireHiringSignal=true for clean results.
3. Export the dataset to CSV or Google Sheets.
4. Filter by remote, locations, roles, techKeywords, visa, and compensationSignal.
5. Use hnUrl to inspect the original post before contacting a company.

What you can automate next

• Monthly hiring lead CSV for recruiters or job seekers
• Remote-only startup job board
• Airtable base of companies hiring on HN
• Market map of startup hiring demand by tech stack
• Salary/visa signal tracker across monthly HN threads

Notes

• Uses public Hacker News Firebase and Algolia APIs.
• No login, cookies, proxy, or browser automation required.
• Parses top-level comments only, because those are the actual job posts in the monthly thread.