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Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Jobs, Ask HN & Show HN

Export fresh Hacker News stories, comments, jobs, Ask HN, Show HN, and polls into structured datasets for research, hiring signals, and monitoring.

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kane liu

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Monthly active users

14 hours ago

Last modified

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Jobs

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Automation

Search keyword

searchQuery

Optional

Optional keyword or phrase. When set, the Actor runs a Hacker News keyword search through the public Algolia HN Search API. Leave empty to collect live Firebase feeds and explicit item IDs instead.

Type:string

Max. length:200

Hacker News feeds

feeds

Optional

Official Firebase feeds to sample when Search keyword is empty.

Type:string[]

Min. items:1

Max. items:6

Default:

[
  "top",
  "new",
  "best",
  "ask",
  "show",
  "job"
]

Record types to keep

recordTypes

Optional

Hacker News item types emitted to the Dataset. Applies to both keyword-search and feed modes.

Type:string[]

Min. items:1

Max. items:5

Default:

[
  "story",
  "comment",
  "job",
  "poll",
  "pollopt"
]

Specific item IDs (optional)

itemIds

Optional

Optional positive Hacker News item IDs for feed/item-ID mode. Ignored when Search keyword is set.

Type:integer[]

Max. items:100

Default:

[]

Include comment and poll descendants

includeDescendants

Optional

For feed/item-ID mode, traverse public kids and poll parts beneath selected roots up to Max depth. Keyword-search mode returns the search hits directly.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Maximum descendant depth

maxDepth

Optional

Depth below each selected root to traverse when descendants are enabled. A root has depth 0. Not used in keyword-search mode.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10

Default:2

Maximum Dataset records

maxItems

Optional

Global cap after deduplication and type selection. In keyword-search mode, this is the maximum number of search hits written to the Dataset.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:2000

Default:100

Maximum Firebase item fetches

maxFetches

Optional

Safety cap for Firebase item detail requests in feed/item-ID mode. It must be at least Maximum Dataset records; keyword-search mode does not fetch Firebase item details.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:5000

Default:500

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