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Hacker News Topic Intelligence

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Type any topic and get the most-discussed Hacker News stories ranked by engagement and velocity, with top comments, demand signals (people asking for tools) and domain leaderboards. Monitor mode returns only new stories. Flat CSV, official APIs.

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Pay per event

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Developer

Forge Labs

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Monthly active users

4 days ago

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Categories

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Developer tools

You can access the Hacker News Topic Intelligence 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "topics": ["AI agents"],
10    "daysBack": 30,
11    "maxStoriesPerTopic": 30,
12    "topCommentsPerStory": 3,
13}
14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
16run = client.actor("forgelabs/hacker-news-topic-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input)
17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
19print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
20for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
21    print(item)
22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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