# Hacker News Intelligence & Trending Tech Radar (`lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper`) Actor

Scrape top stories, Show HN launches, Ask HN discussions, scores & comments from Hacker News in under 1 second. Clean AI-ready JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Cedric poma](https://apify.com/lepone31) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Developer tools, Business
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 hacker news story extracteds

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## ⚡ Hacker News Intelligence & Trending Tech Radar

[![Apify](https://img.shields.io/badge/Apify-Actor-00A65A?style=flat\&logo=apify\&logoColor=white)](https://apify.com/Lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper)
[![Pay-Per-Event](https://img.shields.io/badge/Monetization-Pay--Per--Event-blue)](https://apify.com/Lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper)
[![Speed](https://img.shields.io/badge/Speed-%3C%200.5s-orange)](https://apify.com)

Scrape trending stories, community discussions, Show HN launches, Ask HN Q\&As, upvotes, and comment counts from **Hacker News** in **under 0.5 seconds**. Powered by official asynchronous Firebase endpoints with **0 € proxy expenses** and **AI-ready Markdown payloads**.

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### ⚡ Why choose this Hacker News Scraper?

- **⚡ Ultra-Fast Parallel Extraction (< 0.5s):** Leverages asynchronous parallel calls against the official Firebase API.
- **💰 Zero Proxy Costs (0 € Operating Expense):** Operates on standard datacenter compute with 100% success rate without residential proxies.
- **🤖 AI & RAG Ready:** Standardized `llmContext` field formatted in Markdown for immediate LLM summarization.
- **🏷️ Pay-Per-Event (PPE):** Micro-priced at **$0.002 per story**. No monthly subscriptions.

***

### 📥 Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :--- |
| `section` | `string` | `"top"` | Feed section: `top` (Trending), `best` (Highest score), `new` (Fresh submissions), `show` (Show HN project launches), `ask` (Ask HN discussions). |
| `maxItems` | `integer` | `30` | Maximum number of stories to extract (1 to 100). |
| `minScore` | `integer` | `10` | Filter out stories with fewer upvotes than this threshold. |

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### 📤 Output Format

```json
{
  "id": 50341174,
  "title": "Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen",
  "score": 2627,
  "author": "dbreunig",
  "commentsCount": 799,
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-02T16:45:00+00:00",
  "url": "https://example.com/astra-weights",
  "hackerNewsUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174",
  "section": "top",
  "type": "story",
  "llmContext": "**Title:** Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen\n**Score:** 2627 points | **Comments:** 799\n**Author:** dbreunig | **Date:** 2026-11-02\n**Article Link:** https://example.com/astra-weights\n**HN Discussion:** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174"
}
```

***

### 🛠️ Typical Use Cases

1. **Daily Tech News & AI Radar:** Monitor Show HN launches and viral discussions to spot rising frameworks and startups.
2. **Sentiment Analysis & Community Buzz:** Track public reaction and developer opinions about new tech releases.
3. **Automated Social Content:** Auto-post trending Hacker News discussions to Discord, Telegram, or LinkedIn.

***

### 👤 Author

Maintained by **[Cedpom (Lepone31)](https://apify.com/Lepone31)** on the Apify Store.

# Actor input Schema

## `section` (type: `string`):

Hacker News feed section to extract.

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

Maximum number of stories to extract (1 to 100).

## `minScore` (type: `integer`):

Only keep stories with at least this number of points/upvotes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "section": "top",
  "maxItems": 30,
  "minScore": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (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("lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper").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("lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper").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 lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lepone31/hackernews-trends-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/SqTSHZGGM8yow2swA/builds/FqzaPDgDaMI05RqhW/openapi.json