Hacker News keyword alert

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Hacker News keyword alert

Deprecated

See alternative Actors

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

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Matěj Volf

Maintained by Community

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Total users

Monthly active users

2 years ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Open source

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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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