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Hacker News Top Stories

Get Hacker News top stories with titles, URLs, points, authors and comment counts. Perfect for newsletters and trend analysis.

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from $0.50 / 1,000 results

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Muhammad Naufal

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News

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You can access the Hacker News Top Stories programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("lafuan/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Top Stories API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Top Stories API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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