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Hacker News Scraper & Change Monitor

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Search Hacker News, export ranked stories and comments, inspect public author submissions, and track new or updated observations with clear coverage.

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Developer

Luka

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

4 days ago

Last modified

Categories

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News

Row kind

recordType

Required

item, profile, change or coverage.

Type:string

Example:

item

Stable ID

stableId

Optional

Use this ID to join repeated observations.

Type:string | null

Example:

hn:item:49600216

Source ID

Optional

Hacker News item number or public username.

Type:integer | string | null

Example:

49600216

Item type

itemType

Optional

story, comment, job, poll or pollopt.

Type:string | null

Title

title

Optional

Source-published title when available.

Type:string | null

Example:

MCP server architecture for platform teams

Linked page

url

Optional

External link published in the item; not visited.

Type:string | null

Discussion or profile

canonicalUrl

Optional

Public Hacker News URL.

Type:string | null

Source URL

sourceUrl

Optional

Public provenance for this record.

Type:string | null

Source

sourceName

Optional

Hacker News.

Type:string | null

Observation source

sourceClass

Optional

Public item, indexed search or public profile.

Type:string | null

Author

author

Optional

Public username attached to the item.

Type:string | null

Points

points

Optional

Visible source points; unavailable for many comments.

Type:number | null

Reported comments

commentCount

Optional

Source-reported discussion comment count.

Type:integer | null

Published at

createdAt

Optional

Source creation time in UTC.

Type:string | null

Published Unix seconds

createdAtUnix

Optional

Source creation time as seconds since 1970.

Type:integer | null

Text

text

Optional

Source-published item text or public profile biography.

Type:string | null

Parent ID

parentId

Optional

Parent of a comment or poll option.

Type:integer | null

Story ID

storyId

Optional

Linked story ID when supplied by the source.

Type:integer | null

Deleted flag

deleted

Optional

Explicit deletion flag returned by the source.

Type:boolean | null

Dead flag

dead

Optional

Explicit source moderation flag.

Type:boolean | null

Feed position

rank

Optional

Position in the fetched ranked feed.

Type:integer | null

Included comments

comments

Optional

Nested public comments with stable IDs, text and parent/depth fields.

Type:object[] | null

Comment coverage

commentsCoverage

Optional

COMPLETE, CAPPED, PARTIAL or NOT_REQUESTED.

Type:string | null

Observed at

collectedAt

Optional

Time this observation was collected.

Type:string | null

Observation fingerprint

contentHash

Optional

Stable comparison key; changes with the observation contents.

Type:string | null

Username

username

Optional

Public profile username.

Type:string | null

Karma

karma

Optional

Public source profile karma.

Type:integer | null

Submission count

submissionCount

Optional

Number of public submission IDs returned by the source.

Type:integer | null

Change

changeKind

Optional

NEW or UPDATED relative to this watch.

Type:string | null

Example:

NEW

Previous fingerprint

previousContentHash

Optional

Previous saved observation fingerprint, when present.

Type:string | null

Change ID

changeId

Optional

Stable event key for this recovered run; use to deduplicate downstream events.

Type:string | null

Checked scope

target

Optional

The requested source scope.

Type:string | null

Coverage

coverageStatus

Optional

How completely this run checked its scope.

Type:string | null

Example:

CAPPED

Reported source records

sourceRecords

Optional

Source list size or initial search estimate.

Type:integer | null

Checked records

checkedRecords

Optional

Items examined in this run.

Type:integer | null

Delivered records

deliveredRecords

Optional

Useful paid rows delivered for this scope.

Type:integer | null

Unavailable records

unavailableRecords

Optional

Requested items not verified; never treated as removals.

Type:integer | null

Filtered records

filteredRecords

Optional

Items excluded by the buyer filters.

Type:integer | null

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