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Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and user profiles. Fetch top, new, best, ask, show, and job stories with full item details. Extract comments, user karma, and submission history.

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from $3.00 / 1,000 results

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Noximilian

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Monthly active users

11 hours ago

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Features

Story lists: Fetch top, new, best, ask HN, show HN, and job stories
Item details: Get full item data (title, URL, score, author, text, timestamps)
Comment trees: Recursively fetch comment threads with configurable depth
User profiles: Fetch karma, about, and submission history
Search: Full-text search via Algolia HN API

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	stories	stories, item, user, search
storyType	string	top	top, new, best, ask, show, job (stories mode)
itemId	int	—	Item ID (item mode)
username	string	—	HN username (user mode)
query	string	—	Search query (search mode)
limit	int	100	Max results
includeComments	bool	false	Fetch comment trees (stories mode)
commentDepth	int	2	Comment recursion depth

Output

Each result is a JSON object with HN item or user data. Stories include: id, type, title, url, text, score, by, time, descendants, kids. Comments include nested _children arrays. Users include: id, karma, about, created, submitted.

API

Firebase HN API (no auth, no rate limit)
Algolia HN Search API (no auth)

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