You can access the Hacker News API Scraper - Stories, Comments & Polls 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

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("logiover/hacker-news-search-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 Scraper — Export HN Stories to CSV API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Hacker News API Scraper - Stories, Comments & Polls API in JavaScript

Hacker News API Scraper - Stories, Comments & Polls API through CLI

Hacker News API Scraper - Stories, Comments & Polls OpenAPI definition

Hacker News API Scraper - Stories, Comments & Polls API

Hacker News Scraper

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Search and scrape Hacker News stories, comments, Show HN and Ask HN via the public API. No proxy, no browser.

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Hacker News Search Scraper

fetch_cat/hacker-news-search-scraper

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lentic_clockss/hacker-news-scraper

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kane liu

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments, Ask/Show HN

hipersoft/hacker-news-scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs and polls by keyword, points, comments and date range. Sort by relevance or newest. Title, URL, author, points, comment count, text and HN link. Fast clean HTTP via the HN Algolia API, no key.

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Hacker News Scraper Pro — Stories, Jobs, Show HN, Ask HN

diverse_venture/hackernews-scraper

Comprehensive Hacker News scraper. Get top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, Who's Hiring jobs, comments, and search results. Uses the official HN Firebase API + Algolia search — no auth required. Export JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Chak Man Fung

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Jobs, Ask HN, Show HN

angaba92/hacker-news-scraper

Extract top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job posts from Hacker News via the official API.

Andres Garcia-Baquero Leon

Hacker News Scraper — Stories & Comments Search

omao/hackernews

Search Hacker News stories, comments, Show HN and Ask HN by keyword into clean JSON: title, URL, author, points, comment count and dates. Powered by the official HN Algolia API. No anti-bot.

Marouane Oulabass

Hacker News Scraper

rupom888/hackernews-scraper

Scrape stories, jobs, comments, and polls from Hacker News using the official HN Firebase API. Get top/new/best/ask/show stories with comments, search by keyword via Algolia HN Search API. Reliable and no rate limiting.