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Hacker News API Scraper

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Scrapes Hacker News items through the official Firebase API and outputs only result rows.

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Ian Dikhtiar

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Hacker News Trend Scraper

Hacker News is an early-warning system for what technical people care about.

This actor turns HN into clean structured data from the official Firebase API: top stories, new stories, best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, or exact item IDs.

Use it for startup research, developer intelligence, launch tracking, hiring-market signals, newsletters, dashboards, alerts, and AI workflows.

What you get

One real Hacker News item per dataset row
Title, author, score, comment count, timestamp, URL, and HN discussion link
Optional HN text for Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, comments, and polls
Optional child/comment IDs for discussion graph workflows
Run summary stored separately in the key-value store

Best feeds

Feed	Best for
`topstories`	Current front-page monitoring
`newstories`	Early trend detection
`beststories`	Higher-quality ranked items
`askstories`	Pain points, questions, and debates
`showstories`	Launches, demos, tools, and startup ideas
`jobstories`	Hiring and market-demand signals

Example input

{
  "feed": "showstories",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "itemType": "story",
  "includeText": true,
  "includeKidIds": true
}

Data source

Official Hacker News Firebase API:

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/<feed>.json
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/<id>.json

No proxy, browser rendering, or HTML parsing required.

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