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Hacker News Search and Mention Monitor

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Search every Hacker News story and comment, or watch for new mentions of your company on a schedule. Gets past the 1,000 result ceiling by splitting the date range. No key and no login.

Pricing

Pay per event

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Developer

Gregory Bolshakov

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Monthly active users

5 days ago

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You can access the Hacker News Search and Mention Monitor 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

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "queries": [
12        "anthropic"
13    ],
14    "tags": [
15        "story"
16    ]
17};
18
19// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
20const run = await client.actor("gubidonius/hn-search").call(input);
21
22// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
23console.log('Results from dataset');
24console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
25const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
26items.forEach((item) => {
27    console.dir(item);
28});
29
30// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Hacker News Search and Mention Monitor API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Search and Mention Monitor API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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