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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Who Is Hiring Jobs

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Search Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN and Show HN by keyword with date range and minimum points, beyond the 1,000-result limit. Or turn any month's 'Who is hiring?' thread into structured job posts with company, remote flag, links and emails.

Pricing

from $0.21 / 1,000 story or comments

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Jefferson Valandro

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Monthly active users

12 hours ago

Last modified

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Jobs

News

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Who Is Hiring Jobs 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 = {
9    "query": "open source",
10    "maxItems": 50,
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("jeffev/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments & Who Is Hiring API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Who Is Hiring Jobs API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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