# Hacker News Jobs & Startup Hiring Scraper (Who Is Hiring) (`kamerozkan/hacker-news-jobs-hiring-scraper`) Actor

Scrape tech jobs, founder emails, salaries, remote policies, and tech stacks directly from official Hacker News Who is Hiring threads. Fast JSON REST API, zero proxy fees, $0.003/lead.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kamerozkan/hacker-news-jobs-hiring-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Kamer Ozkan](https://apify.com/kamerozkan) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 job extracteds

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Hacker News Jobs & Startup Hiring Scraper (Who Is Hiring)

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Extract real-time startup jobs, founder direct contact emails, salary ranges, and remote policies directly from the monthly official **Hacker News "Who is Hiring?"** threads.

Powered by the official Hacker News Firebase REST API: Ultra-fast HTTP, zero browser overhead, zero proxy fees.

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#### Features

- **Direct Founder & Recruiter Emails:** Instant extraction of hiring contact emails.
- **Structured Fields:** Company name, role, location, remote status, application link, and full posting text.
- **Real-Time Sync:** Automatically finds and scrapes the latest active monthly thread.
- **Pay-Per-Event:** Only $0.003 per extracted lead. Zero compute or proxy surcharges.

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#### Integrations

- **Google Sheets & Airtable:** Export leads for sales and candidate outreach.
- **Make & Zapier:** Trigger automated email sequences when a matching company hires.
- **n8n:** Custom lead enrichment pipelines.

# Actor input Schema

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

Maximum number of hiring leads to extract.

## `keywordFilter` (type: `string`):

Filter jobs by technology, role, or location (e.g., Python, Remote, React, AI). Leave empty for all.

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

Extract only jobs explicitly marked as Remote.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 30,
  "keywordFilter": "",
  "remoteOnly": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Default dataset containing extracted job leads.

# 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("kamerozkan/hacker-news-jobs-hiring-scraper").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("kamerozkan/hacker-news-jobs-hiring-scraper").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 kamerozkan/hacker-news-jobs-hiring-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,kamerozkan/hacker-news-jobs-hiring-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/m2XTgd7TcKmQooXDM/builds/7KEdTscQQhlYCfFcc/openapi.json