
Hacker News Data Scraper & Activity Monitoring
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Hacker News Data Scraper & Activity Monitoring
Unofficial Hacker News API to extract data from all Hacker News categories. You can filter posts based on specific keywords, track trends using the unique activity monitoring feature, and receive updates directly in your Slack channel.
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$1.00 / 1,000 results
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Monthly users
2
Runs succeeded
>99%
Last modified
5 months ago
You can access the Hacker News Data Scraper & Activity Monitoring 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.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=lucen_data/hacker-news-data-scraper-activity-monitoring"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1fa
Using Hacker News Data Scraper & Activity Monitoring via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Hacker News Data Scraper & Activity Monitoring within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId
and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Hacker News Data Scraper & Activity Monitoring Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "hnDataSource": " ",
8 "proxyConfig": {
9 "useApifyProxy": true
10 }
11},
12 "name": "lucen_data/hacker-news-data-scraper-activity-monitoring"
13 }
14}'
The response should be: Accepted
. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}
Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Hacker News Data Scraper & Activity Monitoring
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "lucen_data/hacker-news-data-scraper-activity-monitoring"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}
You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
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Pricing model
Pay per resultThis Actor is paid per result. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for each dataset of 1,000 items in the Actor outputs.
Price per 1,000 items
$1.00