Hacker News Who Is Hiring Scraper — HN Jobs

Parse the famous monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread into one structured job record per top-level comment.

What Hacker News Who is Hiring data does this scraper extract?

Each result is one flat JSON record per job posting:

Field	Meaning
title	Job title as posted
company	Hiring company / organisation
location	Location / duty station (may include remote hints)
url	Direct link to the posting
postedAt	Posting date where the source provides it
salary	Salary text where the source provides it
snippet	Short description excerpt
id	Stable source-side identifier

How to scrape Hacker News Who is Hiring with this Actor

1. Click Try for free / Run — no login to the target site, no cookies, no proxies to configure.
2. Adjust the input (keyword, filters, maxItems) or keep the defaults.
3. Run it and export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it over the API.

Run it from your own code:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("nomad-jobs/hackernews-scraper").call(run_input={"maxItems": 50})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], "—", item["company"], item["url"])

Or a single HTTP call that runs the Actor and returns items in one response:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nomad-jobs~hackernews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 50}'

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum number of job postings to return. Set 0 for no limit (all postings in the thread).
maxAgeHours	integer	0	Only return postings newer than this many hours. Set 0 to disable age filtering and return all postings in…
cacheTtlSeconds	integer	1800	Cache the upstream fetch in the key-value store for this many seconds; re-runs within the window skip the…

Output example

{
  "id": "40571234",
  "title": "Senior Systems Engineer — Rust",
  "company": "Oxide Computer",
  "location": "Remote (US)",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571234",
  "postedAt": "2026-06-02",
  "salary": "",
  "snippet": "Oxide | Remote (US) | Senior Systems Engineer..."
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.05 per Actor start and $0.004 per job returned. 100 jobs ≈ $0.45. No subscription, no rental — you pay only for what you fetch.

Use cases

• Tracking startup and YC-adjacent hiring monthly
• Feeding job boards with hard-to-find startup roles
• Sourcing engineering-heavy openings before they hit job boards
• Hiring-trend analysis on HN data

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Hacker News Who is Hiring? This Actor reads only publicly available job postings — data any visitor can see without logging in. No personal data behind authentication is touched. Review the target site's terms and your local regulations for your specific use case.

Do I need an account on the target site? No. Postings are fetched from public pages/APIs — no login, cookies or session tokens.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live listings. Results are cached for cacheTtlSeconds (default 30 min, set 0 to always hit the source live).

How many jobs can I get? maxItems caps the run (set 0 where supported for no cap). Most sources paginate from newest to oldest.

Something broken or missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — it is monitored and reliability fixes ship fast.

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