Hacker News Search: stories, comments, Show HN, Ask HN
Pricing
from $0.35 / 1,000 hn items
Search Hacker News stories, comments, Show HN, Ask HN and job posts by keyword, date and points. Clean rows with title, link, points, comments and author. Brand and competitor monitoring on HN. Official Algolia HN API. Pay per item.
You can access the Hacker News Search: stories, comments, Show HN, Ask HN programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "query": "AI agents"12};13
14// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish15const run = await client.actor("openfetch/hacker-news-search-api").call(input);16
17// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)18console.log('Results from dataset');19console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);20const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();21items.forEach((item) => {22 console.dir(item);23});24
25// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Search: stories, comments, Show HN, Ask HN API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: