Pricing

Pay per usage

Hacker News Keyword Tracker — New Mentions & Discussions

Track new Hacker News stories and comments mentioning a keyword — your product, your competitor, or a topic. Get the title, points, comment count, author, and link the moment it's posted. For founders and marketers watching for mentions, and researchers tracking a topic's discussion.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Timothy Kelvin

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

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Input

{
  "keywords": ["apify", "web scraping"],
  "includeComments": true,
  "daysBack": 14,
  "maxResultsPerKeyword": 20
}

Field	Type	Description
`keywords`	array of strings	Search terms. One search is billed per keyword.
`includeComments`	boolean	Also match comments, not just submitted stories. Default `true`.
`daysBack`	number	Only return posts/comments from within this many days of today. Default `14`, max `90`.
`maxResultsPerKeyword`	number	Max matches to return per keyword, most recent first. Default `20`, max `100`.

Output

One record per match:

{
  "keyword": "apify",
  "type": "story",
  "objectID": "49119659",
  "title": "YouTube Shorts Scraper and MCP Connector",
  "author": "techforce_actor",
  "points": 2,
  "numComments": 0,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-31T06:23:39Z",
  "externalUrl": "https://apify.com/techforce.global/youtube-shorts-scraper",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119659"
}

A keyword with no matches in the requested window returns no items but is still billed once for the search.

How it works

Direct calls to the official Algolia Hacker News Search API (hn.algolia.com), the same search index that powers HN's own search page. No proxy, no key, no scraping.

Pricing note

Billed per keyword searched, not per mention returned — one charge per keyword whether it matches 0 or 100 posts/comments.

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