Hacker News Items Scraper
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Hacker News Items Scraper
Power your the latest stories from Hackernews Items with headline, author, publication date, topic tags, summary and full body content. Loved by media monitoring, PR teams, brand watchers and competitive intelligence. Run on demand or on a recurring schedule and feed every row into your favourite.
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🟧 Hacker News Items Scraper
🚀 Pull Hacker News stories in seconds. Production ready, real time data with no manual collection.
Scrape stories from Hacker News via the official Firebase API. Pull title, URL, score, author, comments count, time and story type from top, new or best stories for tech trend monitoring.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Data analysts | Build dashboards, monitor changes |
| Compliance teams | Risk screening and audit trails |
| Journalists | Investigative research and reporting |
| Developers | Pipe data into apps via Apify API |
📋 What this Scraper does
- Connects to the official public source in real time
- Returns clean, deduplicated records
- Auto paginates through the upstream API or HTML feed
- Normalizes dates, identifiers and codes
- Outputs every record with a
scrapedAtISO timestamp - Supports up to 1,000,000 items per run for paid users
💡 Why it matters. save engineering hours, get a clean dataset in one run.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: by, descendants, id, results, score, scrapedAt, sourceUrl, time, title, type, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know: the actor returns whatever the live source returns at runtime.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free account w/ $5 credit
- Open the Hacker News Items Scraper in the Apify Console
- Fill the input or use the prefill
- Click Start
- Open the dataset in your spreadsheet tool of choice
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💡 Pro Tip. browse the complete ParseForge collection.
⚠️ Disclaimer. independent tool, not affiliated with the upstream source. Only publicly available data is collected.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
For faster answers, join our Discord. It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.
