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Hacker News Scraper - Stories Jobs & Comments

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Scrape Hacker News via Firebase API. Top, new, best, ask, show, job stories. Filter by score. Optional comments.

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oscar lira

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Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Jobs & Comments

Lightweight Apify actor that scrapes Hacker News using the official Firebase API. Pure HTTP requests, no browser needed.

Features

Scrape Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN, and Job stories
Filter by minimum score
Optionally fetch top-level comments for each story
Concurrent fetching with rate-limit-friendly batching (10 parallel requests)
Outputs structured JSON with extracted domains, ISO dates, and HN discussion links

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`storyType`	enum	`top`	Category: `top`, `new`, `best`, `ask`, `show`, `job`
`maxResults`	integer	`50`	Number of stories to return (1-500)
`includeComments`	boolean	`false`	Fetch top-level comments per story
`minScore`	integer	—	Only return stories with at least this score

Output

Each story in the dataset contains:

Field	Type	Description
`id`	integer	HN item ID
`title`	string	Story title
`url`	string	External link (null for text-only posts)
`score`	integer	Upvote count
`author`	string	Submitter username
`time`	integer	Unix timestamp
`timeISO`	string	ISO 8601 date
`commentCount`	integer	Total comments
`type`	string	`story`, `job`, or `poll`
`text`	string	Body HTML (Ask HN, Show HN, jobs)
`domain`	string	Extracted from URL
`hnUrl`	string	Link to HN discussion
`comments`	array	Top-level comments (if enabled)

Running locally

cd hackernews-scraper
npm install
echo '{ "storyType": "top", "maxResults": 10 }' | npx apify-cli run --purge

Technology

Node.js 20 (Alpine)
Native fetch (no axios/got)
Apify SDK v3

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