Hacker News Jobs Scraper

Scrape Hacker News job postings (the official HN job board + "Who is hiring" style posts) fast and reliably via the official Algolia API. No proxies, no headless browsers, no bot-detection problems — clean structured JSON in seconds.

Why this actor

• ⚡ Fast — uses the official Algolia API (hn.algolia.com), completes in seconds, not minutes
• 🎯 Reliable — no HTML parsing, no anti-bot walls, stable API contract
• 🧹 Clean output — normalized fields: company extracted from title, canonical URLs, dates, tags
• 💰 Pay-per-result — you only pay for what you get

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	(empty)	Full-text search, e.g. remote react, rust, senior backend
tags	string	job	job for the job board; story for stories; comment for comments
maxItems	integer	100	Max results (1–1000)

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "remote senior",
  "tags": "job",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example output

{
  "id": "49542486",
  "title": "Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)",
  "company": "Nango",
  "url": "https://nango.dev/careers",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542486",
  "author": "bastienbeurier",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-02T21:00:04Z",
  "points": null,
  "tags": ["job", "author_bastienbeurier"]
}

Use cases

• Job boards & aggregators — keep your HN-sourced listings fresh
• Recruiting intelligence — track which startups are hiring, for which roles, and how often
• Sales leads — companies posting jobs are buying signals; pair with enrichment APIs
• Market research — measure hiring trends by tech stack over time (golang, kubernetes, ...)

Integration

• API — run programmatically: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YOURNAME~hn-jobs-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<token>
• Python / JS SDKs — official Apify clients
• Integrations — Google Sheets, Airtable, Make, Zapier via Apify integrations

Notes

• The HN job board is public data; the actor respects Algolia API rate limits automatically.
• Company name is heuristically extracted from the posting title; the raw title is always included.