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Search Hacker News stories and comments by keyword and date. Newest first, structured JSON, one row per match. $0.15 per 1,000 results, pay only for rows you receive. A pre-indexed engine, not a live scraper.

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You can access the Hacker News Search 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.

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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": "artificial intelligence" }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("indexablework/hacker-news-search").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

Hacker News Search — Stories & Comments by Keyword & Date API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Hacker News Search API in JavaScript

Hacker News Search API through CLI

Hacker News Search OpenAPI definition

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