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Hacker News Scraper & API - Export Stories, Comments, Data

Extract top stories, trending posts, points, comments & authors from Hacker News front page. Real-time data export to JSON/CSV. Monitor tech trends, analyze viral content, track HN activity. Fast Playwright scraper.

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper & API - Export Stories, Comments, Data 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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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
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("fresh_cliff/hackernews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper & API – Export Stories & Comments API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper & API - Export Stories, Comments, Data API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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