Pricing

from $1.30 / 1,000 item scrapeds

Hacker News Scraper

Scrape HN stories, comments, and profiles via Firebase API. Get top/new/best/ask/show/job stories with scores, authors, timestamps. Full comment tree threading. User profiles with karma. Fast API-based.

Pricing

from $1.30 / 1,000 item scrapeds

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Developer

junipr

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

11 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Developer tools

Required

Hacker News item ID

Type:integer

Example:12345678

Type

type

Required

Item type: story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt

Type:string

Example:story

Title

title

Optional

Story or job title

Type:string

Example:Show HN: A new open-source tool for web scraping

URL

url

Optional

External URL linked by the story

Type:string

Example:https://example.com/article

Text (HTML)

text

Optional

HTML body content for text posts, comments, and jobs

Type:string

Example:<p>This is a comment with <a href="https://example.com">a link</a>.</p>

Text (Markdown)

textMarkdown

Optional

Body content converted to clean markdown, optimized for LLM consumption

Type:string

Example:This is a comment with [a link](https://example.com).

Author

Optional

HN username of the item author

Type:string

Example:pg

Score

score

Optional

Upvote score of the item

Type:integer

Example:142

Time (Unix)

time

Optional

Unix timestamp when the item was created

Type:integer

Example:1710150000

Time (ISO)

timeISO

Optional

ISO 8601 timestamp when the item was created

Type:string

Example:2026-03-11T12:00:00.000Z

Comment Count

descendants

Optional

Total number of comments on the story

Type:integer

Example:50

Comments

comments

Optional

Nested comment tree with recursive replies

Type:object[]

HN URL

hnUrl

Optional

Direct link to the item on Hacker News

Type:string

Example:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678

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