Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper (Parsed)

Turn the monthly Hacker News "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread into clean, structured job rows: company, role, location, work mode (remote, onsite, hybrid), job type, salary, visa sponsorship, tech stack, contact emails, company URL and links. It also supports the "Who wants to be hired?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads.

• Uses the official public HN Algolia API. No login, cookies, proxies or browser.
• Covers up to 24 months of threads in one run.
• Runs in seconds and costs very little.
• Header parser handles the common HN formats: Company | Role | Location | ... with pipe, dash, bullet or slash separators, plus Company: / Role: / Location: lines.

Use cases

• Recruiters and agencies: leads with salary, stack and direct hiring-manager emails.
• Job seekers: filter remote Python or Rust roles with salary in one click, then export to CSV or Google Sheets.
• Job boards and newsletters: a fresh monthly feed of startup jobs to import.
• Market research: track salary ranges, remote share and tech-stack demand month over month.
• Sales and lead gen: find funded startups that are actively hiring, along with their websites.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
months	integer	1	How many monthly threads to read (1 = latest, max 24)
threadType	select	hiring	hiring, freelancer or wantsHired
keywords	string list	[]	Keep posts containing any of these words (case-insensitive)
remoteOnly	boolean	false	Keep only posts that mention remote
maxItems	integer	200	Stop after this many results

Example input

{
  "months": 3,
  "threadType": "hiring",
  "keywords": ["python", "rust"],
  "remoteOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output fields

Field	Description
company	Company name from the post header
role	Role or roles being hired
location	Location text, e.g. San Francisco, CA; REMOTE (US)
workMode	remote, onsite, hybrid, remote/onsite, remote (mentioned) (remote only appears in the body), or null
remote	true if "remote" appears anywhere in the post
jobType	e.g. Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Intern
salary	First salary or range found, e.g. $170k to $230k
visa	true if visa or sponsorship is offered, false if the post says no sponsorship, null if not mentioned
companyUrl	Company website from the header
tech	Detected technologies (Python, TypeScript, React, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, LLM and more)
emails	Contact emails in the post
links	Up to 5 links in the post
isJobPost	true when the post has a company plus a role, location or salary. Use it to drop chatter and meta comments
headerLine	The raw first line of the post
author	HN username of the poster
postedAt	Post timestamp (ISO, UTC)
thread	Thread title, e.g. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
url	Direct link to the HN comment
text	Full plain-text post

Example output

{
  "company": "Sidekick Labs",
  "role": "Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer",
  "location": "REMOTE (US Timezones)",
  "workMode": "remote",
  "remote": true,
  "jobType": "Full-time",
  "salary": "$170k to $230k",
  "visa": null,
  "companyUrl": "https://sidekicklabs.com",
  "tech": ["Python", "Go", "AI"],
  "emails": ["eric+hn@sidekicklabs.com"],
  "links": ["https://sidekicklabs.com"],
  "isJobPost": true,
  "headerLine": "Sidekick Labs | Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer | REMOTE (US Timezones) | Full-time | $170k to $230k Base + Equity + Health",
  "author": "mcintyem",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-01T15:03:36.000Z",
  "thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922609",
  "text": "Sidekick Labs | Senior SWE ..."
}

Parsing quality

Tested on 600 real posts across 3 months (Aug to Oct 2026). On the 564 posts flagged isJobPost: company 100%, location 98%, work mode 94%, role 79%, salary 40% (many posts don't list a salary).

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• $0.005 per run start
• $0.002 per job result

1,000 jobs cost about $2. You also pay Apify platform usage, which is tiny for this actor because it calls a lightweight API and runs no browser. Set a max charge per run in the run options to cap your spend.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. The actor reads publicly posted data through Hacker News' official public Algolia API. Respect the posters: use contact emails only to apply for or ask about the job, not for spam.

How fresh is the data? HN posts a new thread on the first weekday of each month, and the actor always reads the live thread, so new comments show up on every run.

Why are some fields null? Posts are free text. Fields are filled only when the poster includes them. The full text is always included so nothing is lost.

How do I get only real job posts? Filter on isJobPost = true.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Use Apify Schedules (for example weekly) and connect the output to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook or Zapier/Make.

Can I export to CSV or Excel? Yes, from the dataset tab, or through the Apify API.

Something is parsed wrong? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the post URL and I will improve the parser.