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Hacker News Tracker — Top Stories, Score & Keyword Filter

Scrape Hacker News top/new/best/ask/show stories with scores, comment counts, domains, and HN links. Filter by minimum score, domain, or keywords. No API key required. Perfect for trend monitoring, content curation, and tech pulse tracking. $0.005/story.

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Hacker News Tracker

Scrape Hacker News top, new, best, Ask HN, and Show HN stories with scores, comment counts, domains, and direct links. Filter by score, domain, or keywords. No API key required. $0.005/story.

⚡ Run in 30 seconds

Runs instantly — just set your feed and limit:

Feed: top / new / best / ask / show / job
Limit: 1–500 stories
Min score: filter out low-signal posts

Use cases

Trend monitoring: What's hot in tech today?
Content curation: Find top posts from specific domains (github.com, arxiv.org)
AI/ML research: Filter by keywords like "LLM", "agent", "startup"
Competitive intelligence: Track posts about specific companies
Newsletter research: Automated daily HN digest

Output fields

{
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance",
  "url": "https://www.theregister.com/...",
  "domain": "theregister.com",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678",
  "score": 656,
  "author": "throwaway123",
  "comment_count": 501,
  "time_unix": 1754524800,
  "_type": "story",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T09:48:02Z"
}

Input options

Field	Default	Description
`feed`	`top`	`top`, `new`, `best`, `ask`, `show`, `job`
`limit`	`30`	Number of stories (max 500)
`minScore`	`0`	Minimum upvote score filter
`filterDomain`	—	Only stories from this domain (e.g. `github.com`)
`filterKeywords`	—	Only stories whose title contains any keyword

Pricing

$0.001 flat per run start
$0.005 per story returned

Example: 30 top stories = $0.151

Data source

Uses the official Hacker News Firebase API — free, no authentication required, always up-to-date.

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