Hacker News Scraper — Who Is Hiring Jobs, Stories & Comments
Pricing
from $0.80 / 1,000 jobs
Hacker News scraper: the monthly "Who is hiring?" thread as clean job rows (company, role, location, remote, salary, visa, apply links), YC job posts, stories (front page, Show HN, Ask HN, search) and comments. Only new posts since your last run. No login, no API key.
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