Hacker News Scraper
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Scrape Hacker News stories — top, new or best — with title, url, score, comment count and timestamps, via the official HN Firebase API. Clean JSON, no author usernames, no personal data.
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You can access the Hacker News Scraper 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "listType": "topstories",10 "maxItems": 50,11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("exuberant_volley/hackernews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: