# Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper (`juicy_fillet/hn-whos-hiring`) Actor

Turn the monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread into structured job posts: company, role, location, remote, salary, tech stack and apply links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/juicy_fillet/hn-whos-hiring.md
- **Developed by:** [Xander Yushchak](https://apify.com/juicy_fillet) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper

Turn the monthly **Hacker News 'Who is hiring?'** thread into a clean job list. Each post becomes a row with company, roles, locations, remote/onsite/hybrid flags, salary, visa mention, detected technologies, emails, links and the full text. Also works for 'Who wants to be hired?' and the freelancer thread.

### What you can use it for

- **Job seekers:** filter hundreds of posts by remote, salary, tech stack or city.
- **Recruiters and sales:** a monthly list of funded startups that are actively hiring.
- **Job boards and newsletters:** import HN jobs automatically.
- **Research:** track which technologies and salaries startups advertise over time.

### How it works

The actor finds the monthly threads posted by the official 'whoishiring' account using the Hacker News Algolia API, reads every top-level comment and parses the 'Company | Role | Location | ...' header.

### Input example

```json
{
  "threadType": "hiring",
  "latestThreads": 1,
  "remoteOnly": true,
  "keywords": [
    "rust",
    "python"
  ],
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

Every option is described in the Input tab. Set **Max results** to control how much you pay for.

### Output example

```json
{
  "id": 49922584,
  "company": "PrairieLearn",
  "roles": [
    "Full-Stack Software Engineer"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "Remote US",
    "TypeScript / Postgres / React / AI"
  ],
  "headline": "PrairieLearn (Remote US) — Full-Stack Software Engineer — TypeScript / Postgres / React / AI",
  "remote": true,
  "onsite": false,
  "hybrid": false,
  "fullTime": false,
  "partTime": false,
  "contract": false,
  "visaSponsorship": false,
  "salary": "$100k-$180k",
  "technologies": [
    "AI",
    "AWS",
    "LLM"
  ],
  "emails": [],
  "links": [
    "https://www.prairielearn.com",
    "https://github.com/PrairieLearn/PrairieLearn",
    "https://www.prairielearn.com/jobs-ashby?utm_source=YeEJ5MAKkr&ashby_jid=ee6fdbc3-1c3a-4fa3-bb3f-13ddab449baf"
  ],
  "author": "example_user",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-01T15:02:37.000Z",
  "threadTitle": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)",
  "threadId": 49922569,
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922584"
}
```

Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or connect them to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or your own code through the Apify API.

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** (new Apify accounts get monthly free credit).
2. Fill in the input, for example to get remote Rust jobs with a listed salary.
3. Click **Start** and download the results as Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML, or open them in Google Sheets.

### How much does it cost?

You pay only for results: **$2.5 per 1,000 tech job posts** (about $0.25 for 100), plus a fraction of a cent per run. Set **Max results** to cap your spend. Apify's free plan credit covers a lot of test runs.

### Integrations and API

Use it as an export tool for the Hacker News jobs thread. Run it on a schedule and send new results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier, Make, n8n or your own webhook, or call it from any language through the Apify API. It also works as a tool for AI agents through Apify's MCP server.

### Scheduling

Use Apify Schedules to run the actor daily or weekly and get only the latest records, for example with **Days back** set to 1 or 7.

### FAQ

**Is parsing perfect?**

Posts are free text, so fields like roles and salary are best-effort. The full text and headline are always included.

**Can I get older months?**

Yes, set 'Number of latest months' or list specific months.

**Something broken or missing?**

Open an issue in the Issues tab and it will be fixed.

# Actor input Schema

## `threadType` (type: `string`):

Which monthly Hacker News thread to read.

## `latestThreads` (type: `integer`):

How many of the most recent monthly threads to read.

## `months` (type: `array`):

Optional, e.g. 'October 2026', 'September 2026'. Overrides 'Number of latest months'.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep posts mentioning any of these, e.g. 'rust', 'Berlin', 'founding engineer'.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only keep remote jobs.

## `visaOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only posts that mention visa sponsorship.

## `salaryOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only posts that mention a salary.

## `includeFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Include the full text of each post.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many results. You only pay for results saved.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "threadType": "hiring",
  "latestThreads": 1,
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "visaOnly": false,
  "salaryOnly": false,
  "includeFullText": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results saved by this run, in the default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("juicy_fillet/hn-whos-hiring").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("juicy_fillet/hn-whos-hiring").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call juicy_fillet/hn-whos-hiring --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,juicy_fillet/hn-whos-hiring"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AWBarQmngg1Jbc9DH/builds/9C0OjFCp3cPxFfZvJ/openapi.json