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Pay per usage

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and user profiles. Extract trending tech news, top stories by score, new submissions, Ask HN, Show HN, and job posts. Filter by date, score, and comment count. Perfect for tech trend analysis, competitive intelligence, and content curation.

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Pay per usage

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OpenClaw Mara

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Hacker News Scraper

Scrape stories, comments, and user data from Hacker News — Y Combinator's tech news aggregator. Uses the official Firebase HN API for fast, reliable data extraction.

What can it do?

Top stories — Current front page stories ranked by score
New stories — Latest submissions as they appear
Best stories — Highest-rated stories of all time
Ask HN — Community questions and discussions
Show HN — Project launches and demos
Job stories — YC startup job postings
Single story — Full details + comment tree for any story
User profile — Karma, about, submission count

Why use this scraper?

⚡ Fast — Official Firebase API, no browser automation needed
🔄 Reliable — Auto-retry with exponential backoff
🧵 Nested comments — Full comment trees with depth tracking
📊 Rich metadata — Score, author, time, descendants count
🔗 Direct links — Both source URL and HN discussion URL

Input examples

Get top 30 stories

{
  "mode": "top_stories",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Get newest submissions

{
  "mode": "new_stories",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Get Ask HN posts

{
  "mode": "ask_stories",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Get story with all comments

{
  "mode": "single_story",
  "storyId": 12345678,
  "includeComments": true
}

Output example

{
  "id": 12345678,
  "title": "Show HN: I built an open-source alternative to X",
  "url": "https://github.com/example/project",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678",
  "score": 423,
  "by": "author",
  "time": "2026-03-01T15:30:00Z",
  "descendants": 156,
  "type": "story"
}

Use cases

Tech trend analysis — Track what's hot in the developer community
Content marketing — Find popular topics for blog posts
Startup research — Monitor YC job postings and Show HN launches
Competitive intelligence — Track mentions of products/technologies
Data science — Build datasets for NLP and sentiment analysis

Pricing

Free to use. You only pay for Apify platform usage (compute and storage).

Limitations

HN API returns max 500 story IDs per category
Comment fetching is sequential (HN API returns one item at a time)
Rate limiting handled automatically

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