# Every comment on one Hacker News discussion

**Use case:** 

Give it a Hacker News item link and it returns the story plus its whole comment tree flattened into rows: author, posted time, depth, parentId, storyId, the story title and the comment text, up to 200 comments and ten levels deep. Paste several links to do several threads in one run, or raise commentsMinLength to drop one-liners before they are charged. $0.20 per 1,000 items.

## Input

```json
{
  "mode": "items",
  "keywords": [],
  "tags": [
    "story"
  ],
  "tagsMode": "all",
  "sort": "date",
  "feeds": [
    "front"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 30,
  "itemIds": [],
  "itemUrls": [
    "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716176"
  ],
  "usernames": [],
  "includeSubmissions": false,
  "hiringThread": "who-is-hiring",
  "months": [],
  "monthsBack": 1,
  "lookbackHours": 24,
  "firstRunBehavior": "emit-all",
  "minPoints": 20,
  "maxItems": 300,
  "authors": [],
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "hitsPerPage": 100,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerStory": 200,
  "maxCommentDepth": 10,
  "commentsMinLength": 0,
  "maxSubmissionsPerUser": 20,
  "submissionTypes": [
    "story",
    "comment"
  ],
  "threadIds": [],
  "maxJobsPerThread": 300,
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "filterKeywords": [],
  "minParseConfidence": 0.3,
  "includeUnparsed": true,
  "enrichPoster": true,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "includeText": true,
  "includeSummary": true,
  "stateStoreName": "hacker-news-api-state",
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "maxRunSecs": 240,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "author": {
    "label": "Author",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "createdAt": {
    "label": "Created at",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "depth": {
    "label": "Depth",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "Text",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "storyTitle": {
    "label": "Story title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "parentId": {
    "label": "Parent id",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "hnUrl": {
    "label": "Hacker News URL",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Hacker News API: Search, Comments, Users & Who Is Hiring](https://apify.com/insight.solutions/hacker-news-api.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/insight.solutions/hacker-news-api.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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