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Hacker News Search Scraper (Free)

Search Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN & Show HN by keyword. Filter by points, sort by date or relevance, full HN archive. Clean JSON output via the official Algolia HN API. 100% free — no API key needed.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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0.0

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Input

Field	Type	Description
`queries`	array	Keywords to search. One search per entry.
`searchType`	string	`story`, `comment`, `ask_hn`, `show_hn`, `front_page` or `all`. Default `story`.
`sortBy`	string	`relevance` or `date` (newest first). Default `relevance`.
`minPoints`	integer	Only items with at least this many points. Default `0`.
`maxResults`	integer	Max results per query. Default `50`.

Output

One dataset item per result:

{
  "status": "found",
  "query": "web scraping",
  "type": "story",
  "id": "31261533",
  "title": "Web scraping is legal (US precedent)",
  "url": "https://example.com/article",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533",
  "author": "ehurynovich",
  "points": 1207,
  "numComments": 359,
  "createdAt": "2022-04-18T15:04:02Z",
  "text": null,
  "tags": ["story"]
}

Items with status: "not_found" (no results) or status: "error" (with an error message) are pushed instead of crashing the run.

Use cases

Monitor mentions of your product, brand or competitors on Hacker News.
Track developer sentiment about technologies and frameworks.
Collect trending stories for newsletters, digests or AI agents.
Research historical discussions on any topic (search supports the full HN archive).

Limitations & fair use

Uses the public Algolia HN Search API; a polite delay is applied between requests.
Max 1,000 results per query (API pagination limit).
Data is public content from news.ycombinator.com.

This actor is free — you only pay standard Apify platform usage. More actors by this developer: fit_melon on Apify Store.

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