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Hacker News — CSV, Stories + Comments + Users, No API Key

Scrape HN top/new/Show HN/Ask HN/jobs in minutes. No rate limits, no API key. Title, URL, score, comments, author → JSON/CSV. 46 lifetime runs. For launch monitoring, competitor tracking, market trend research. dev.to/0012303 · blog.spinov.online

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Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments, Scores, API API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News — CSV, Stories + Comments + Users, No API Key locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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Hacker News — CSV, Stories + Comments + Users, No API Key API in Python

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Hacker News — CSV, Stories + Comments + Users, No API Key API

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