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Hacker News Search: Stories, Comments and Mentions

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Search Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN and jobs through the public search API. Filter by points and date, and track new mentions of your keywords.

Pricing

Pay per event

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Developer

Damian Obernikowicz

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

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You can access the Hacker News Search: Stories, Comments and Mentions 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 = { "queries": ["apify"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("ghimli/hacker-news-search").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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 Search: Stories, Comments and Mentions API in Python

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

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