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Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments, Search & Alerts

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Hacker News front page, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and job lists, or keyword search with date, points and comment filters. Optional comments, flattened with depth. Schedule it with "Only new items" for brand and topic alerts. Official HN and Algolia APIs. USD 0.50 per 1,000 stories.

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments, Search & Alerts 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 = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("jtpalms/hacker-news").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 Scraper | Stories, Comments, Search, Alerts API in Python

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

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$pip install apify-client

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