# Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper (Parsed) (`negligible_carrageen/hn-hiring-jobs`) Actor

Structured jobs from HN "Who is hiring?" threads: company, role, location, remote/onsite, salary, visa, tech stack and emails. Official API, no proxies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/negligible_carrageen/hn-hiring-jobs.md
- **Developed by:** [Hussain Ali](https://apify.com/negligible_carrageen) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `months` (type: `integer`):

How many monthly threads to read (1 = latest).

## `threadType` (type: `string`):

Which monthly thread.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep posts containing any of these (case-insensitive).

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only posts mentioning remote.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "months": 1,
  "threadType": "hiring",
  "keywords": [],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `jobs` (type: `string`):

All parsed job posts (company, role, location, workMode, salary, visa, tech, emails, URL).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("negligible_carrageen/hn-hiring-jobs").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("negligible_carrageen/hn-hiring-jobs").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call negligible_carrageen/hn-hiring-jobs --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,negligible_carrageen/hn-hiring-jobs"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PnqgT9Hz0A6oOfSpD/builds/6Xexgkd7CyhO2lDWs/openapi.json