# Hacker News: Who is Hiring Jobs, Stories & Search (`kvozi/hacker-news-jobs-stories`) Actor

Monthly HN 'Who is hiring?' job posts parsed into company, remote flag and salary text, plus HN stories, comments and front-page lists, from the official Hacker News APIs. Filters and only-new mode.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kvozi/hacker-news-jobs-stories.md
- **Developed by:** [Kvozi](https://apify.com/kvozi) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, News
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 item results

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?

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

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# README

## Hacker News: Who is Hiring Jobs, Stories & Search

Get data from Hacker News as clean JSON, using only the **official Hacker News APIs**: the Firebase item API and the Algolia HN Search API. There is no login, no HTML scraping and no proxies.

Three modes:

1. **`hiring`**: every post from the monthly **"Ask HN: Who is hiring?"** thread (or "Who wants to be hired?" / "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"). The first line of each post is split into company, remote flag and salary text, as written by the employer.
2. **`search`**: full-text search of stories or comments, with points and date filters. Useful for brand and competitor monitoring.
3. **`lists`**: the current top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN or job lists.

### Popular uses

- Build a job board or alert of startup jobs, remote-only or by city.
- Find companies that are hiring right now (sales and recruiting leads).
- Track mentions of your product, competitors or a technology on HN with `onlyNew` on a schedule.

### Input examples

Latest hiring thread, remote jobs that mention Python:

```json
{ "mode": "hiring", "remoteOnly": true, "keywords": ["python"] }
```

A given month:

```json
{ "mode": "hiring", "month": "2026-09" }
```

New stories about "AI agents" with 50+ points in the last 7 days:

```json
{ "mode": "search", "query": "AI agents", "searchType": "story", "minPoints": 50, "sinceDays": 7 }
```

### Output

A job post:

```json
{
  "source": "hackernews",
  "type": "job",
  "id": "45012345",
  "threadId": "45000000",
  "threadTitle": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)",
  "isReply": false,
  "company": "Acme Robotics",
  "headline": "Acme Robotics | Senior Backend Engineer | Berlin or REMOTE (EU) | Full-time | $150k-$190k",
  "segments": ["Acme Robotics", "Senior Backend Engineer", "Berlin or REMOTE (EU)", "Full-time", "$150k-$190k"],
  "remote": true,
  "onsite": null,
  "salaryText": "$150k-$190k",
  "author": "acme_hr",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-01T15:01:00Z",
  "text": "Acme Robotics | Senior Backend Engineer | ...\n\nWe build warehouse robots...",
  "links": ["https://acme.example/jobs"],
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45012345",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z"
}
```

Stories carry `title`, `url`, `points`, `commentCount`; comments carry `storyId` and `storyTitle`.

A run summary is saved to the `OUTPUT` record of the run's key-value store.

### Good to know

- `company`, `remote` and `salaryText` come only from the first line of a post, following the usual HN `Company | Role | Location | ...` format. Posts that do not follow it keep these fields `null`; the full text is always in `text`.
- `remote` is `false` only when the first line says "no remote" or similar.
- Posts belong to their authors. Respect the people who post and the HN guidelines when contacting them.

### Pricing

You pay only for items returned. There is no charge for platform usage.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

hiring: posts from the monthly HN hiring thread. search: full-text search. lists: current HN lists.

## `threadType` (type: `string`):

Which monthly thread to read in hiring mode.

## `month` (type: `string`):

Thread month like 2026-10. Leave empty for the latest thread.

## `includeReplies` (type: `boolean`):

In hiring mode also return replies to job posts (questions, follow-ups).

## `query` (type: `string`):

Search mode: words to search for, e.g. rust, AI agents, your brand.

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

Search mode: kind of items to search.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Search mode: newest first or most relevant first.

## `lists` (type: `array`):

Lists mode: any of top, new, best, ask, show, job.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep items whose title or text contains any of these words (case-insensitive).

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Keep items that mention any of these places, e.g. Berlin, London, EU.

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

Hiring mode: keep only posts whose first line says REMOTE.

## `minPoints` (type: `integer`):

Search and lists modes: keep only items with at least this many points.

## `sinceDays` (type: `integer`):

Keep only items posted within this many days.

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

Run stops after this many items. Private owner preview is limited to 500.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Return only items not returned before for the same query (or stateKey). Good for schedules.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Optional name for the only-new history. Pick a unique name.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "hiring",
  "threadType": "hiring",
  "includeReplies": false,
  "searchType": "story",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "lists": [
    "top"
  ],
  "keywords": [],
  "locations": [],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 300,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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("kvozi/hacker-news-jobs-stories").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("kvozi/hacker-news-jobs-stories").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 kvozi/hacker-news-jobs-stories --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/UDjxXovhImbaG8G78/builds/AoNhq7JfB9DYAb9SB/openapi.json