Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Who Is Hiring
Pricing
from $0.70 / 1,000 story scrapeds
Get Hacker News stories from the official HN API: top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and jobs. Filter by keyword and minimum score, optionally with comments. Clean text, direct links, JSON/CSV/Excel.
id
Optional
Hacker News item ID.
type
Optional
Item type as reported by the HN API, e.g. "story" or "job".
title
Optional
Story title.
url
Optional
Story's external URL, if any (null for text-only posts like most Ask HN).
text
Optional
Story body as plain text (HTML from the API decoded: entities resolved, paragraphs turned into line breaks, links kept as plain URLs).
by
Optional
Public Hacker News username of the author (public data from the official API).
score
Optional
Story points at the time of the run.
descendants
Optional
Total number of comments on the story, as reported by HN (independent of how many were fetched - see "comments").
time
Optional
When the story was submitted (ISO 8601, UTC).
hnUrl
Optional
Public URL of the story's discussion page on news.ycombinator.com.
domain
Optional
Domain of "url", without a leading "www." (null for text-only posts).
error
Required
Set when this item ID could not be resolved or fetched; all other fields are null on error rows. Error rows are never charged.
scrapedAt
Required
When this row was collected (ISO 8601, UTC).
comments
Optional
Comments fetched for this story, breadth-first, up to "maxCommentsPerStory" (null if "includeComments" was off).