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Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Comments & Who's Hiring

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Search or browse Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN and Who's Hiring threads via the official Algolia API. Filter by points and date. Pay per item.

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Hacker News Scraper

Search or browse Hacker News (stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, and monthly Who's Hiring threads) using the official Algolia Search API — fast, reliable, no scraping fragility. Pay only per item returned.

Use cases

Track mentions of your product, company or keyword on HN
Pull the newest Who's Hiring / Who Wants to Be Hired threads for job-market research
Feed trending tech discussions into AI agents, newsletters or dashboards
Build datasets of Show HN launches or Ask HN discussions by topic

Input

Field	Type	Description
`queries`	array	Keywords to search. Leave empty to just browse by tag/date.
`tags`	array	`story`, `comment`, `poll`, `ask_hn`, `show_hn`, `job` (default `["story"]`)
`includeComments`	boolean	Fetch comment text when `tags` includes `comment`
`sortBy`	string	`relevance` or `date` (newest first)
`minPoints`	integer	Only items with at least this many points
`postedAfter` / `postedBefore`	string	ISO date bounds
`maxItemsPerQuery`	integer	Cap per query (up to 1000)
`maxResults`	integer	Overall cap

Output (one item per story/comment)

{
  "id": "41930211",
  "type": "story",
  "title": "Show HN: FetchSmith – pay-per-use scraper APIs",
  "url": "https://fetchsmith.com",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41930211",
  "author": "someuser",
  "points": 142,
  "numComments": 38,
  "createdAt": "2026-09-01T12:00:00.000Z",
  "query": "fetchsmith"
}

Pricing

result — charged per item returned. Empty queries and failed pages are free.

Tips

For the current "Who is hiring?" thread: set queries to ["Ask HN: Who is hiring"], tags: ["story"], sortBy: "date", maxItemsPerQuery: 1 to find the thread, or use tags: ["comment"] with postedAfter set to the 1st of the month to pull all replies.
Use sortBy: "date" for a live monitoring feed of new mentions of your keyword.

Only publicly available data is collected via HN's official search API. Questions or feature requests: support@fetchsmith.com. Also available as a hosted API at https://fetchsmith.com/tools/hacker-news-scraper

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