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Hacker News keyword alert

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Hacker News keyword alert

Hacker News keyword alert

Deprecated

Developed by

Matěj Volf

Maintained by Community

Actor for the Apify platform that allows receiving notifications when a keyword is mentioned on Hacker News. This enables many use-cases, such as allowing businesses to monitor mentions of their brand, or monitoring news around your favorite technology

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3

Monthly users

4

Last modified

2 years ago

You can access the Hacker News keyword alert programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=mvolfik/hacker-news-keyword-alert"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1fa

Using Hacker News keyword alert via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

MCP server lets you use Hacker News keyword alert within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Hacker News keyword alert Actor with the provided input.

1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3  "id": 1,
4  "method": "tools/call",
5  "params": {
6    "arguments": {
7      "keyword": "apify"
8},
9    "name": "mvolfik/hacker-news-keyword-alert"
10  }
11}'

The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:

1event: message
2data: {
3  "result": {
4    "content": [
5      {
6        "type": "text",
7        "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8      }
9    ]
10  }
11}

Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Hacker News keyword alert

You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:

1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "actors-mcp-server": {
4      "command": "npx",
5      "args": [
6        "-y",
7        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8        "--actors",
9        "mvolfik/hacker-news-keyword-alert"
10      ],
11      "env": {
12        "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13      }
14    }
15  }
16}

You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.

To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.

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This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage.