Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 post scrapeds

HackerNews Scraper

Scrape Hacker News posts, stories, and comments. Extract titles, scores, authors, URLs, and discussion data from the front page, new, best, ask, show, and jobs sections.

Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 post scrapeds

Rating

0.0

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Developer

Gio

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

6 days ago

Last modified

Features

Scrape any HN section (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs)
Optional top-level comment extraction
Fast and lightweight — uses HN Firebase API
Pay-per-event pricing (per post scraped)

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
section	string	news	HN section: news, newest, best, ask, show, jobs
maxItems	integer	30	Maximum posts to scrape (1-500)
includeComments	boolean	false	Scrape top-level comments
maxComments	integer	10	Max comments per post (1-100)
proxy	object	Apify proxy	Proxy configuration

Output

Each post includes: id, title, author, score, numComments, type, url, hnUrl, text, createdAt, scrapedAt, and optionally comments[].

Cost

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged per post scraped. Free users are limited to 15 posts per run.

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