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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments, Ask/Show HN

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs and polls by keyword, points, comments and date range. Sort by relevance or newest. Title, URL, author, points, comment count, text and HN link. Fast clean HTTP via the HN Algolia API, no key.

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hiper soft

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments, Ask/Show HN 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments, Ask/Show HN API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments, Ask/Show HN API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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Dominik

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Search and export Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN and polls by keyword. Points, author, comment counts, URLs & timestamps. Official public API — no login, no key, no proxy. JSON/CSV export.

Hasnain Nisar

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Export fresh Hacker News stories, comments, jobs, Ask HN, Show HN, and polls into structured datasets for research, hiring signals, and monitoring.

kane liu

Reddit Scraper

velvety_bedbug/reddit-scraper

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Hacker News Search — Stories, Comments & Developer Sentiment

ryanclinton/hackernews-search

Search and extract stories, comments, polls, Show HN, and Ask HN posts from Hacker News. This actor uses the Algolia HN Search API to find content by keyword, filter by author, date range, minimum points, and comment count -- then returns clean, structured JSON ready for analysis, monitoring, or ...