Pricing

Pay per usage

Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and user data. Supports top/new/best/ask/show/job story feeds and full-text keyword search via the Algolia API. Extract titles, URLs, scores, authors, comment counts, and timestamps.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Monkey Coder

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper 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.

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    "mode": "top",
10    "query": "openai",
11    "username": "pg",
12    "search_sort": "relevance",
13    "max_results": 100,
14    "request_timeout": 30,
15}
16
17# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18run = client.actor("gentle_cloud/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
19
20# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
21print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
22for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
23    print(item)
24
25# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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