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Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments, Search, Jobs

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Scrape Hacker News: the live front page, newest, best, Ask HN, Show HN and jobs lists, keyword search with dates and minimum points, full comment threads, any user's submissions and the monthly Who is hiring thread. One item per story or comment with points, comments, author, date and plain text.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 story or comments

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Plainsource

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

a day ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Developer tools

What to scrape

mode

Optional

A live list (front page, newest, best, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs), a keyword search over all of Hacker News, the comments of given stories, the submissions of given users, or a monthly Who is hiring thread.

Type:string

Default:front

Options:

frontnewbestaskshowjobssearchcommentsuserhiring

Search query

query

Optional

Search mode: keywords to find in titles, URLs, story text and comments. User mode: only keep that user's items matching these words. Who is hiring mode: only keep job posts that contain all of these words (for example: rust remote).

Type:string

Content type (search and user modes)

contentType

Optional

What to return in Search and User modes.

Type:string

Default:story

Options:

storycommentallask_hnshow_hnjobpollfront_page

Search order

searchSort

Optional

Relevance ranks by match quality and points, at most 1,000 results per search. Date returns newest first and can go past 1,000 results.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedate

Story IDs or URLs (comments mode)

storyIds

Optional

Story IDs (8863) or links (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863). The Actor returns every comment, nested replies included, up to Max comments per story.

Type:array

Usernames (user mode)

usernames

Optional

Hacker News usernames (pg, dang) or profile links (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg). Usernames are case-sensitive. Newest submissions first.

Type:array

Month (Who is hiring mode)

hiringMonth

Optional

latest for the current thread, or a month such as 2026-10 or October 2026.

Type:string

Default:latest

Thread (Who is hiring mode)

hiringThread

Optional

Which of the monthly threads to read. Each top-level comment becomes one item. The Freelancer thread ran until October 2025.

Type:string

Default:hiring

Options:

hiringwants_to_be_hiredfreelancer

From date

dateFrom

Optional

Optional. Only items posted on or after this date (2026-01-31) or within a relative period (7 days, 3 months).

Type:string

To date

dateTo

Optional

Optional. Only items posted on or before this date. A bare date includes the whole day (UTC).

Type:string

Minimum points

minPoints

Optional

Skip stories with fewer points. Comments have no public points and are not affected.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Max results

maxItems

Optional

Stories per live list or search, items per user in user mode, job posts in Who is hiring mode. Comments mode uses Max comments per story instead, and comments added with Include comments do not count here. 0 means no cap.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Include comments

includeComments

Optional

List, search and user modes: after each story, add its comments as separate items (one extra request per story). Every comment is an item.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max comments per story

maxCommentsPerStory

Optional

Cap on comments saved for each story, nested replies included, in comments mode and with Include comments. Top-level comments follow Hacker News's own ranking, replies are in time order.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:100

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