Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Points, Comments & Ask HN
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Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Points, Comments & Ask HN
Scrape Hacker News stories, Show HN, Ask HN and jobs. Titles, points, authors, comment counts and URLs as JSON or CSV.
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Extract Hacker News stories, Show HN, Ask HN, jobs and comments with points, authors and comment counts.
What you can do with it
- Trend and sentiment research - what the developer community is discussing now.
- Launch monitoring - track Show HN posts and how they performed.
- Hiring signals - Ask HN 'Who is hiring' threads as structured data.
- Content curation - build a feed filtered by topic and score.
- Feed an AI agent - clean story metadata with no scraping fragility.
Input
Every field is optional. Run it with no configuration and it returns useful data straight away.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
search | string | Full-text search across Hacker News. Leave empty for the newest items. |
tags | string | One of: story, comment, show_hn, ask_hn, poll, job, front_page. Default story. |
minPoints | integer | Only items with at least this many points. Default 0. |
postedWithinDays | integer | Only items from the last N days. |
maxItems | integer | How many items to return. Default 200. |
Output
Flat JSON records, exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML. Fields the source does
not publish come back as null rather than being omitted, so your schema stays
stable between runs.
Pricing
Pay per result. You are charged only for records actually delivered - a run that matches nothing costs nothing.
Keeping it fresh
Use Apify Schedules to run this on a timer and your dataset stays current without you touching it. Add a webhook to push new records straight into your database, Google Sheet or Slack channel.
Reliability
This reads the source's own public API - no logins, no bot circumvention. That is a deliberate choice: actors that depend on defeating bot protection break without warning. This one does not.
