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Hacker News Front Page Scraper

Pulls stories from HN front page, best, Show HN, Ask HN, jobs feeds, or by keyword search. Title, URL, author, points, comments, tags. Free Algolia + Firebase APIs.

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Shane Miller

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Hacker News Scraper — Front Page, Best, Show HN, Ask HN API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News Front Page Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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Hacker News Front Page Scraper API in JavaScript

Hacker News Front Page Scraper OpenAPI definition

Hacker News Front Page Scraper API

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