Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts
Pricing
from $0.80 / 1,000 story measureds
Hacker news story metrics: read story IDs, scores, timestamps and comment counts from the public API. $0.001 per story; start extra; usage included; failed results uncharged.
You can access the Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "storyIds": [12 "8863"13 ]14};15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17const run = await client.actor("hermeskd/hacker-news-story-metrics").call(input);18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)20console.log('Results from dataset');21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();23items.forEach((item) => {24 console.dir(item);25});26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: