Hacker News Scraper: Search Discussions + Analysis
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Hacker News Scraper: Search Discussions + Analysis
Scrape Hacker News stories and comments for any keyword (no login) and get an analysis of what the community praises and complains about. Uses the official Algolia HN API.
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Hacker News Discussion Intelligence
**Hacker News scraper** — Scrape Hacker News comments for any keyword and extract complaint and feature-request themes by statistical lift, not keyword count.Most Hacker News tools hand you a pile of raw stories. This one ships the analysis you were going to build anyway.
What you get
- Themes people complain about — terms that appear disproportionately in negative discussion, not just the most frequent words
- Themes people ask for — the same lift-based method applied to requests
- Author signal — which authors consistently draw engagement, with a lower confidence bound so a single lucky post does not look like a pattern
- Trend — monthly volume and negative share, so you can see direction rather than a single spike
Use Cases
- Launch-timing and sentiment tracking — how the HN crowd reacted to a keyword, product, or company name over time
- Product research — what developers praise or complain about for a category before you build in it
- PR/reputation monitoring — spotting a negative HN thread about your company or product early
- Content research — surfacing real, high-engagement threads to write follow-up posts about
How it works
Uses the public Algolia API that Hacker News provides. No login, no rate-limit wars, no terms violation.
Pricing
Pay per event. You are charged per item collected and once per analysis you select. Deselect analyses you do not need.
