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Scrape Hacker News top, new, best, Ask, Show and job stories with scores, authors, URLs and discussion data as JSON. Fast, pay per item.

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📰 Hacker News Stories, Discussions & Jobs Scraper

Fast, complete, and 100% reliable Hacker News scraper and API. Extracts Top Stories, Best Stories, New Submissions, Show HN, Ask HN, and Job postings with zero rate limits or browser overhead.

⚡ Key Features

Blazing Fast: Asynchronous official API extraction with concurrency. Scrapes 100 stories in under 2 seconds.
Multiple Feeds:
- topstories: Current Top Stories leaderboard
- beststories: Highest all-time voted stories
- newstories: Real-time newest submissions
- showstories: Show HN creator launches
- askstories: Ask HN community discussions
- jobstories: Y Combinator startup job postings
Zero Cost Compute: Operates smoothly within 128MB–256MB RAM.

📥 Input Example

{
  "categories": ["topstories", "showstories", "askstories"],
  "maxItemsPerCategory": 50
}

📤 Output Example

{
  "id": 41738291,
  "title": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything",
  "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/",
  "hackerNewsUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41738291",
  "score": 342,
  "by": "elffjs",
  "commentsCount": 184,
  "type": "story",
  "category": "topstories",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-03T20:14:12+00:00"
}

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