Hacker News Scraper
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Hacker News Scraper
Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, and polls. Search by keyword, filter by points or comments, sort by relevance or date. Get title, url, author, points, comment count, and timestamps as clean JSON. No login, no API key.
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Pull stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, and polls from Hacker News. Search by keyword, filter by points or comment count, and sort by relevance or date. No login, no API key.
What it does
The scraper reads the public Hacker News search API and returns one clean row per item. Point it at the front page for the current top stories, or run a keyword search across the full HN archive going back to 2007. It pages through results for you and can pull large date-ordered histories.
What you can pull
- Front page stories, or a keyword search across all of Hacker News.
- Filter to stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, or polls.
- Minimum points and minimum comment count filters.
- One or more authors.
- Sort by relevance or newest first.
Input
query: search term. Leave empty to pull the front page or a whole content type.contentType:front_page,story,comment,ask_hn,show_hn,poll, orall.sortBy:relevanceordate. Date sort can page past the 1,000-result search cap using time windows.minPoints,minComments: numeric filters.authors: usernames to restrict to.maxItems: cap on total items collected.proxyConfiguration: optional Apify Proxy settings.
Output
Each row includes the item id, type, title, url, author, points, comment count, creation time (ISO and Unix), story text or comment text, the parent and story ids for comments, the raw tags, and a direct link to the item on news.ycombinator.com.
Example row:
Notes
Data comes from the public HN search API, which serves the same content you see on the site. Relevance search returns up to 1,000 results per query, a limit of the underlying API. For larger pulls, use date sort, which walks backward through time in windows.
