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Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Comments, Search & Who's Hiring

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Hacker News data from the official API and Algolia HN Search: top/new/best/Ask/Show/job stories, keyword and brand monitoring with only-new alerts, full comment trees flattened with depth, and the monthly Who is hiring thread parsed into job posts.

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from $0.20 / 1,000 hn items

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Cemal Atakli

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Comments, Search & Who's Hiring 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.

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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    "mode": "lists",
10    "lists": ["top"],
11    "maxItemsPerList": 30,
12    "searchQueries": [
13        "Apify",
14        "\"web scraping\"",
15    ],
16    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
17    "itemIds": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863"],
18    "hiringMonth": "latest",
19}
20
21# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
22run = client.actor("gazidev/hacker-news-data").call(run_input=run_input)
23
24# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
25print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
26for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
27    print(item)
28
29# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Comments, Search & Who's Hiring API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Comments, Search & Who's Hiring API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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