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Hacker News Scraper — Top, New, Best, Ask, Show Stories

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Scrape Hacker News stories by mode (top/new/best/ask/show). Uses the official HN Firebase API — no key required. Outputs title, URL, author, score, comment count, and optional top comments. PPE $0.002/item.

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Pay per usage

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Hojun Lee

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Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories using the official HN Firebase API. No API key required. Supports top, new, best, Ask HN, and Show HN story feeds.

Features

5 story feeds: top, new, best, ask, show
Optional comments: fetch top-level comments per story
Score filter: skip low-score stories
Fast parallel fetching: up to 10 concurrent requests
PPE pricing: pay only for what you scrape

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`mode`	string	`top`	Story feed: `top`, `new`, `best`, `ask`, `show`
`maxItems`	integer	`30`	Max stories to scrape (max: 500)
`includeComments`	boolean	`false`	Fetch top comments per story
`maxComments`	integer	`10`	Max top-level comments per story
`minScore`	integer	`0`	Minimum score filter (0 = disabled)

Example Input

{
  "mode": "top",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxComments": 5,
  "minScore": 100
}

Output

Each story produces a dataset record:

{
  "id": 12345,
  "type": "story",
  "title": "Show HN: I built a tool to ...",
  "url": "https://example.com/article",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345",
  "author": "pg",
  "score": 500,
  "comments_count": 142,
  "created_at": "2026-09-01T10:00:00+00:00",
  "text": null,
  "top_comments": [
    {
      "id": 12346,
      "author": "dang",
      "text": "Great post!",
      "created_at": "2026-09-01T10:05:00+00:00"
    }
  ]
}

Pricing (PPE)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005
Per story scraped	$0.002

Example: 100 stories = $0.005 + (100 × $0.002) = $0.205

API

This actor uses the official Hacker News Firebase REST API:

Base: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/
No authentication required
No rate limits (per HN guidelines)

Keywords

Hacker News scraper, HN API, Y Combinator news, HN stories, tech news scraper, Ask HN, Show HN, Firebase API, developer news

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