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Hacker News Scraper

Deprecated

Pricing

$1.00/month + usage

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Hacker News Scraper

Hacker News Scraper

Deprecated

Developed by

gmgn

Maintained by Community

Scrape Hacker News stories within specified date ranges using this Actor. It handles pagination, timezone adjustments, and delivers structured datasets with all relevant metadata.

0.0 (0)

Pricing

$1.00/month + usage

0

Monthly users

1

Last modified

3 months ago

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.

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("gmgn/hacker-news-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

Scrape Hacker News Stories with Date Filtering 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

Other API clients include:

Pricing

Pricing model

Rental 

To use this Actor, you have to pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage.

Free trial

1 day

Price

$1.00