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Forum Pain Finder (Hacker News + Stack Exchange)

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Validate product ideas with real user pain: search Hacker News and Stack Exchange for any topic and get only the posts that complain, wish for a tool, look for an alternative or say they would pay. Rule-based, no API key, no LLM.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 signal rows

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0.0

(0)

Developer

Recep Vural

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Monthly active users

16 days ago

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Marketing

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You can access the Forum Pain Finder (Hacker News + Stack Exchange) 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

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 = { "searchTerms": ["habit tracker"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("happysproutstore/forum-pain-finder").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Forum Pain Finder: Hacker News & Stack Exchange Ideas API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Forum Pain Finder (Hacker News + Stack Exchange) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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Forum Pain Finder (Hacker News + Stack Exchange) API in JavaScript

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