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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments, Jobs & Users

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Scrape Hacker News: stories, Show HN, Ask HN, comments and users with title, URL, author, points, comment count and date. Search by keyword or tag, filter by points, pull a story's comments (incl. Who's Hiring jobs) and user profiles. For tech trends, research and sourcing.

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from $1.75 / 1,000 results

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Developer

Haketa

Actor stats

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Total users

Monthly active users

16 days ago

Last modified

tags

Optional

HN tag: story, show_hn, ask_hn, front_page, poll, or comment. Default: story.

Type:string

Default:story

Options:

storyshow_hnask_hnfront_pagepollcomment

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

Relevance/points (popularity) or newest first (date).

Type:string

Default:popularity

Options:

popularitydate

Min points

minPoints

Optional

Only stories with at least this many points (0 = no filter).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Min comments

minComments

Optional

Only stories with at least this many comments (0 = no filter).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Story IDs (get comments)

storyIds

Optional

Fetch the comments of these story IDs — e.g. a monthly "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread to extract job posts.

Type:array

Usernames

users

Optional

HN usernames to fetch profiles for (karma, about, account age).

Type:array

Max items

maxItems

Optional

Maximum items across all queries. 0 = no limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Max pages per query

maxPagesPerQuery

Optional

Pagination cap per query (100 per page).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:20

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify Proxy. The API is public — datacenter is enough and enabled by default.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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