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Hacker News Top Stories & Discussions Extractor

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Extract top stories, new submissions, Ask HN, and Show HN discussions with upvotes, author handles, timestamps, comments counts, and links using Firebase API.

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📰 Hacker News Top Stories & Discussions Extractor

Extract trending tech stories, developer discussions, Ask HN, Show HN, and Job posts from Hacker News with full engagement metrics, author karma, and clean comment links.

🥊 Why This Actor Beats the Competition

Feature	Fragile HTML Table Scrapers	Raw Firebase Polling	This Actor
Speed	🐌 Slow table DOM parsing	⚠️ Hundreds of individual HTTP requests	⚡ Batch parallelized streaming
Stability	❌ Breaks on layout changes	Prone to network drops	✅ Official Algolia & Firebase dual backends
Cost	💸 High compute hours	💸 High request count	💰 $1.00 per 1,000 stories (PPR)
Data Enrichment	⚠️ Just title & URL	Raw IDs only	✅ Score, comments count, domain & author

🛠️ Step-by-Step: How to Use

Method 1: Apify Console

Select category in Category (top, new, best, ask, show).
Set Max Items limit (default: 50).
Click Start to extract stories.

Method 2: Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("litezero/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "category": "top",
    "maxItems": 30
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"[{item['score']} pts] {item['title']} ({item['numComments']} comments)")

📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`category`	String	No	`"top"`	Story category: `top`, `new`, `best`, `ask`, `show`
`maxItems`	Integer	No	`50`	Maximum stories to extract

📤 Output Data Dictionary

Field	Type	Description
`id`	Integer	Hacker News item ID
`title`	String	Story title
`url`	String	Target article URL
`hnUrl`	String	Direct link to Hacker News discussion thread
`author`	String	Submitter's Hacker News handle
`score`	Integer	Community upvotes
`numComments`	Integer	Number of comments
`domain`	String	Source domain name
`createdAt`	String	ISO 8601 publication timestamp
`scrapedAt`	String	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

💡 Top Use Cases

Tech Trend Scouting: Track emerging developer tools, AI breakthroughs, and YC startups.
Newsletter Curation: Automated weekly digests of top Show HN projects.

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