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Hacker News (HN) API Scraper – Who Is Hiring, Tech News API

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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: full-text Hacker News search, Hacker News jobs threads and startup news feeds. Filter by points, date and exclude keywords. Pay per item. Also a keyword monitoring API for alerts.

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from $0.10 / 1,000 items

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Fetch Smith

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You can access the Hacker News (HN) API Scraper – Who Is Hiring, Tech News API 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "queries": [
12        "apify"
13    ],
14    "tags": [
15        "story"
16    ]
17};
18
19// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
20const run = await client.actor("fetchsmith/hacker-news-scraper").call(input);
21
22// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
23console.log('Results from dataset');
24console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
25const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
26items.forEach((item) => {
27    console.dir(item);
28});
29
30// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Hacker News Scraper API – Stories, Comments, Who's Hiring API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News (HN) API Scraper – Who Is Hiring, Tech News API API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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