You can access the Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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$echo '{
<  "workflow": "collect",
<  "mode": "search",
<  "query": "kubernetes",
<  "feed": "top",
<  "username": "",
<  "itemIds": [],
<  "sort": "date",
<  "itemTypes": [
<    "story"
<  ],
<  "author": "",
<  "minPoints": 0,
<  "minComments": 0,
<  "domain": "",
<  "dateFrom": "",
<  "dateTo": "",
<  "includeComments": false,
<  "maxCommentsPerItem": 5,
<  "commentDepth": 1,
<  "includeUserProfile": true,
<  "stateNamespace": "default",
<  "firstRunBehavior": "seed_only",
<  "maxResults": 200,
<  "maxBuyerChargeUsd": 1,
<  "maxRuntimeSecs": 180
<}' |
<apify call luminar/hackernews-scraper-monitor --silent --output-dataset

Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor API in Python

Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor API in JavaScript

Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor OpenAPI definition

Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor API

Hacker News Scraper - Stories & Comments

spiky_pepperoni/hacker-news-scraper

Search Hacker News stories and comments by keyword. No login.

Arad S

Hacker News Scraper

sweet_rebel/hacker-news-scraper

Rajat Sharda

Hacker News Scraper

klondikeking/hacker-news-scraper

Pierrick McD0nald

Hacker News Search & Monitor

agentictools/hacker-news-search

Search and export Hacker News stories, comments, and Ask or Show HN by keyword, author, points, or date. No API key.

Ken Agland

Hacker News Search Scraper

sthiven_r/hacker-news-search-scraper

Search Hacker News by keyword and get stories (title, URL, points, comments, author, date). For tech monitoring & research.

Wilker Sthiven Rangel Manrique

Hacker News Search Scraper

hermes-yuri/hackernews-search-scraper

Search and scrape Hacker News stories, comments with filtering and sentiment signals. Pay per result!

Yuri

Hacker News Scraper — Submissions, Jobs, Users & Comments

santamaria-automations/ycombinator-scraper

Scrape Hacker News top/new/best/ask/show/job/user submissions. Returns title, author, score, comments, URL, and full text. No login required. Pay-per-result.

NanoScrape

Hacker News Scraper

originalvi/hacker-news-scraper

Search and scrape Hacker News stories and comments by keyword, author, date range, points, or comment count. Fast, official API, no browser.

Andrew Schneidwind

Hacker News Stories, Comments & Users Scraper

crawlerbros/hacker-news-scraper

Scrape Hacker News - search stories and comments, fetch top/new/best stories, get user profiles and submission history. Uses the official Algolia HN Search API and Hacker News Firebase API.

Crawler Bros

Hacker News Stories and Comments Scraper

zinin/hacker-news-stories-comments-scraper

Extract Hacker News stories and comments from the official API with bounded feeds, comment depth, keyword filters, source IDs and clear partial results.