Pricing

Pay per usage

Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News — front page stories, newest posts, job listings, and comments. Track trending tech topics and discussions.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Luan

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Total users

Monthly active users

5 hours ago

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Features

Extract hackernews-scraper data
Configurable output limits
Apify proxy support for reliable scraping
Automatic cookie consent handling
Robust error handling and retries

Input

Field	Type	Description
Field	Type	Description
-------	------	-------------
`feedType`	string	Which feed to scrape: top, new, show, ask, jobs
`maxPosts`	integer	Maximum posts to scrape
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy configuration for the scraper

Output

Field	Description
`title`	string — Post title
`url`	string — Link URL
`hnUrl`	string — Hacker News discussion URL
`score`	number — Upvote score
`author`	string — Poster username
`comments`	number — Comment count
`timestamp`	string — Post age/time
`rank`	number — Position on feed

Pricing

Free platform compute pricing. Pay only for Apify platform usage.

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