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Hacker News Scraper

Scrape stories from Hacker News including top, new, best, ask, show, and job stories. Returns titles, URLs, scores, comment counts, and optionally top-level comments. Uses the official HN Firebase API.

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Stephan Corbeil

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What It Does

This actor scrapes Hacker News to gather story data including headlines, URLs, scores, comments, and metadata. Perfect for news monitoring, trend analysis, tech industry research, and building Hacker News datasets.

Key Use Cases:

Track trending tech topics and stories
Monitor industry news and announcements
Analyze community sentiment and discussion
Research popular tools and services
Build tech news datasets
Create news aggregation systems
Track competitor mentions and coverage

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
searchType	string	Story type: top (trending), new, best (highly rated), ask (Ask HN), show (Show HN), job (job postings)	top
maxResults	integer	Maximum stories to fetch (1-500)	30
includeComments	boolean	Include top-level comments for each story	false

Output Format

Returns story records with:

Story title & URL - Original story link
Score - Upvote count and ranking
Author - Submitter username
Timestamp - Submit time
Comment count - Discussion volume
Top comments (if enabled) - Community discussion highlights
Story type - Categorization (top, ask, show, job)

Example Input

{
  "searchType": "top",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "includeComments": true
}

Quick Start

Choose story type (top trending, new, best, ask, show, jobs)
Set number of stories to fetch
Enable comments if you want discussion threads
Run and export for analysis or integration

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