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Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Items & Users

Extract Hacker News stories (top/new/best/ask/show/job), specific items, or user profiles via the official Firebase API. Clean JSON, no API key.

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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Items & Users

Extract Hacker News stories, items, and user profiles as clean JSON — via the official public Firebase API. No API key, no blocking.

What you get per story/item

{
    "id": 48966190,
    "type": "story",
    "by": "lebovic",
    "title": "Qwen 3.8 Max Preview",
    "url": "https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/token-plan",
    "score": 96,
    "time": 1784451451,
    "descendants": 40,
    "kids": [48967360, 48967344, 48966879]
}

Three modes

Mode	What it does
Stories	Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN, or Jobs list, up to 500 items
Items	Specific item IDs (stories, comments, polls, jobs)
User	User profiles by username (karma, about, submitted item IDs)

Optionally set includeComments: true to attach each story's top-level comments (one level deep, capped by maxCommentsPerItem) — kept shallow on purpose so a single run stays fast and bounded.

Why this scraper

✅ Official API — Hacker News' own public Firebase backend, not scraped HTML
✅ No API key, no rate-limit walls
✅ Reliable — no headless browser to break
✅ Fast — concurrent fetching for large lists
✅ Structured JSON — ready for dashboards, alerts, or LLM/RAG pipelines

Use cases

Tech trend monitoring: track what's trending in tech/startups daily
Research & datasets: build corpora of discussions for NLP/LLM work
Community analytics: user activity and karma tracking
Alerts: watch Show HN / Ask HN for keywords

Input example

{
    "mode": "stories",
    "listType": "top",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "includeComments": true,
    "maxCommentsPerItem": 10
}

FAQ

Is this legal? Reads Hacker News' publicly available Firebase API — no login, no private data.

Why no full comment trees? Comment trees can be arbitrarily deep and expensive to walk. includeComments fetches one level of top-level replies per story; use items mode with a comment's own ID to walk deeper manually.

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