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Hacker News Scraper & Keyword Monitor: Stories + Comments

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Track mentions of your brand, product, competitors or any keyword on Hacker News: stories, comments, Show HN and Ask HN with points, comments, author and links. Only new mentions since the last run, perfect for daily Slack or email alerts. Official Algolia HN API.

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from $1.00 / 1,000 hacker news items

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Julian Genuario

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Monthly active users

5 days ago

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Categories

Social media

Marketing

News

Features

Keywords

keywords

Required

Brands, products, competitors, technologies... One per line. Phrases with spaces are searched as exact phrases.

Type:array

Item types

types

Optional

Stories include Show HN, Ask HN, polls and jobs.

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "story",
  "comment"
]

Days back

daysBack

Optional

Search window. With "only new", later runs start from the last item seen (but never before this window).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:3650

Default:7

Exact word match

strictMatch

Optional

Keep only items where the keyword appears as a whole word or phrase in the title, URL or text (the search engine also returns typo and prefix matches).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Minimum points (stories)

minPoints

Optional

Ignore stories with fewer points. Comments have no public points.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Minimum comments (stories)

minComments

Optional

Ignore stories with fewer comments.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Exclude authors

excludeAuthors

Optional

HN usernames to ignore (for example your own team).

Type:array

Only new items (incremental)

onlyNew

Optional

Return only items not delivered in earlier runs with the same alert name. Schedule it hourly or daily.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Alert name

alertName

Optional

Separate memory per alert.

Type:string

Default:default

Max items per keyword

maxItemsPerKeyword

Optional

Up to 1,000 per keyword per run (API limit).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:500

Max items per run

maxItems

Optional

Total cap after merging keywords.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:50000

Default:2000

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