Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users
Pricing
from $1.95 / 1,000 item scrapeds
Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, user profiles, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, and threaded discussions from the public Firebase API.
You can access the Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "scrapeType": "topStories",10 "maxItems": 1,11 "includeComments": False,12 "maxCommentsPerItem": 0,13 "commentDepth": 3,14}15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17run = client.actor("junipr/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)20print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])21for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():22 print(item)23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: