# Hacker News Scraper + Who Is Hiring Jobs (`ninja.dev/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-jobs`) Actor

Get every job from Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' threads parsed into company, role, location, remote, salary, visa and tech stack. Also search all HN stories and comments by keyword, points and date, or pull the top, new, best, Ask and Show HN lists. Official HN API, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninja.dev/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-jobs.md
- **Developed by:** [Matheus Coelho](https://apify.com/ninja.dev) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 job posts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Hacker News Scraper + Who Is Hiring Jobs

Turn Hacker News into clean data. Every month hundreds of startups and tech companies post jobs in the **"Ask HN: Who is hiring?"** thread. This Actor parses each post into **company, role, location, remote / hybrid / onsite, salary, employment type, visa sponsorship and tech stack**, so you can filter them like a job board.

It also searches all of Hacker News since 2006 (stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN) and pulls the live front page lists. Data comes from the official Hacker News API and the HN Search API. No login, no proxies.

### What you can get

**Jobs from "Who is hiring?"** (one row per post)
Company, role, location, work mode, `isRemote`, salary range as written (`$150k-$200k`, `€75k–80k`), employment type, visa sponsorship mention, detected technologies (Python, Rust, React, Kubernetes...), the header line, full text, links, application emails, author, post date and HN link.

**Stories and comments from search**
Title, URL, text, author, points, comment count, date, HN link and type (story, Ask HN, Show HN, job, comment). Filter by minimum points and date range, sort by relevance or date.

**Front page lists**
Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN and YC Jobs, with rank, points and comment count.

### Use cases

- **Job seekers**: every remote Rust or Python role from this month's thread in a spreadsheet.
- **Recruiters and sales teams**: which companies are hiring, what they pay and which stack they use. Track month over month.
- **Job boards and newsletters**: a monthly feed of fresh startup jobs with salary data.
- **Market research**: how often a technology, competitor or product is discussed, and how it lands (points, comments).
- **Launch monitoring**: Show HN posts mentioning your category, every day on a schedule.
- **AI agents**: a tool that answers "who is hiring Go engineers in Berlin?" with real posts.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `whoIsHiringMonths` | `latest`, or months like `2026-09` or `September 2026`. Threads go back to 2011. |
| `jobKeywords` | Keep only posts containing all of these whole words, e.g. `rust`, `berlin`. |
| `remoteOnly` | Keep only posts that say REMOTE in the header. |
| `searchQueries` | Full-text search across HN, e.g. `postgres`. |
| `searchType` | Stories (default), comments, Ask HN, Show HN, job ads or polls. |
| `sortBy` | `relevance` or `date`. |
| `minPoints`, `dateFrom`, `dateTo` | Filters for search. Dates as YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `frontPageLists` | `top`, `new`, `best`, `ask`, `show`, `job`. |
| `maxItems` | Limit per thread, query or list. Default 100. |

### Output

```json
{
  "recordType": "job",
  "thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)",
  "company": "Sidekick Labs",
  "role": "Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer",
  "workMode": "remote",
  "isRemote": true,
  "employmentType": "full-time",
  "salary": "$170k to $230k",
  "technologies": ["python", "go", "ai"],
  "header": "Sidekick Labs | Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer | REMOTE (US Timezones) | Full-time | $170k to $230k Base + Equity + Health",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-01T15:03:36.000Z",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=..."
}
```

Parsing notes: posts follow a loose `Company | Role | Location | ...` convention. Company is found for nearly every post. Role, location and salary are filled when the poster wrote them in the header (salary is present in roughly 30% of posts). The full `header` and `text` are always included so nothing is lost.

### Pricing

Pay per result: one charge per job post, and a smaller one per story or comment. Errors are free.

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# Actor input Schema

## `whoIsHiringMonths` (type: `array`):

"latest" for the current month, or months like "2026-09" / "September 2026". Each top-level comment becomes one parsed job post.

## `jobKeywords` (type: `array`):

Only keep job posts that contain ALL of these words, e.g. rust, berlin. Case-insensitive.

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

Only keep posts that mention REMOTE in the header line.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Full-text search across all of Hacker News since 2006, e.g. postgres, "vector database".

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

What kind of items to search.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Relevance (points weighted) or newest first.

## `minPoints` (type: `integer`):

Only stories with at least this many points.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD

## `frontPageLists` (type: `array`):

Current ranked lists from the official HN API.

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

Limit per thread, query or list.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "whoIsHiringMonths": [
    "latest"
  ],
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "searchType": "story",
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Parsed Who is hiring job posts and HN stories or comments.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Counts per record type and the list of issues.

# 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 = {
    "whoIsHiringMonths": [
        "latest"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninja.dev/hacker-news-who-is-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 = { "whoIsHiringMonths": ["latest"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninja.dev/hacker-news-who-is-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 '{
  "whoIsHiringMonths": [
    "latest"
  ]
}' |
apify call ninja.dev/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-jobs --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninja.dev/hacker-news-who-is-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/Pd2O2nwyMbxm7O1H5/builds/09B3y417H3li8apbk/openapi.json