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Hacker News Story & Comment Tree Export

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Export exact Hacker News stories and ranked feed discussions with authored reply trees, parent IDs, depth, source times and honest truncation coverage. Includes up to 500 comments per thread; no author profiles or keyword-history claims.

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$4.00 / 1,000 discussion thread exporteds

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You can access the Hacker News Story & Comment Tree Export 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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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {};
11
12// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
13const run = await client.actor("jpmarketdata/hacker-news-story-comment-tree-export").call(input);
14
15// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
16console.log('Results from dataset');
17console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
18const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
19items.forEach((item) => {
20    console.dir(item);
21});
22
23// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Hacker News Story & Comment Tree Export API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Story & Comment Tree Export API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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$npm install apify-client

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