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Hacker News Trends, Top Stories & Discussions Scraper

Lightning-fast Hacker News scraper. Extract top stories, Show HN launches, Ask HN questions, upvote scores, comment counts, external URLs, and AI discussions without rate limits.

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📰 Hacker News Trends, Top Stories & Discussions Scraper

Lightning-fast Hacker News scraper and feed extractor. Captures front page stories, Show HN launches, Ask HN discussions, upvote scores, comment counts, external URLs, and AI debates with zero rate limit blocks.

⚡ Key Features

📰 All Sections Supported: Front page top stories, Show HN product launches, Ask HN Q&As, and Newest tech submissions.
🔍 Full-Text Keyword Search: Query historical or live discussions on AI, LLMs, startups, crypto, frameworks, etc.
🔗 Direct Links & Discussions: Extracts both original external URLs and official Y Combinator discussion thread links.
⚡ Super Fast HTTP Architecture: Extracts 50–100 stories in under 0.8 seconds.
📊 Clean JSON/CSV Export: Perfect for tech newsletters, RSS aggregators, market research, and automated AI summary pipelines.

📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`section`	Enum	`"front_page"`	Section (`"front_page"`, `"show_hn"`, `"ask_hn"`, `"newest"`, `"search"`).
`searchQuery`	String	`""`	Optional search keyword (e.g. `LLM`, `DeepSeek`, `Rust`).
`maxResults`	Integer	`50`	Maximum number of stories to extract.
`proxyConfiguration`	Object	`{ "useApifyProxy": false }`	Optional proxy settings.

📤 Sample Output (JSON)

{
  "id": "41258901",
  "title": "Show HN: Antigravity – Autonomous Pair-Programming Agent",
  "url": "https://antigravity.google.com",
  "points": 348,
  "author": "techfounder",
  "commentsCount": 112,
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41258901",
  "section": "show_hn",
  "createdAt": "2026-08-16T18:00:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-17T12:00:00.000Z"
}

🚀 Use Cases

Tech Industry Newsletters: Curate top trending developer stories automatically for weekly newsletters.
AI Trend Detection: Monitor the most upvoted open-source AI tools and papers in real-time.
Show HN Deal Flow: Discover newly launched developer tools and indie hacker projects on day 1.

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