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Hacker News Data Scraper

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Collect public Hacker News stories and posts by feed, topic, user, date, or listing. Export structured fields such as titles, links, authors, scores, ranks, publication times, and optional top-level comments to an Apify dataset.

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from $0.05 / 1,000 posts

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Developer

Maxime Dupré

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

a day ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Developer tools

Social media

Item ID

Required

Stable Hacker News item ID.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Item type

type

Required

Source-provided Hacker News item type, such as story or job.

Type:string

Example:

story

Title

title

Required

Title supplied by Hacker News.

Type:string

Example:

My YC app: Dropbox

Post text

text

Optional

Public post text supplied by Hacker News, when available. Hacker News may format this text as HTML.

Type:string

Linked URL

url

Optional

Outbound URL supplied by Hacker News, when available.

Type:string

Author

author

Optional

Hacker News username supplied for the item, when available.

Type:string

Example:

Score

score

Optional

Current score supplied by Hacker News, when available.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Example:

111

Comment count

commentCount

Optional

Current number of comments supplied by the source, when available.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Example:

Rank

rank

Optional

Position in the selected feed or search results, when available.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Example:

Published at

publishedAt

Required

Publication time supplied by Hacker News in ISO 8601 format.

Type:string

Example:

2007-04-05T14:06:40Z

Top-level comments

comments

Optional

Available top-level public comments when comment collection is enabled. Replies stay linked under their parent comment.

Type:object[]

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