📰 Hacker News Top Stories Scraper

🚀 Get hacker news top stories data in seconds. Get Hacker News top stories: title, URL, score, author, comment count, story type and posted timestamp via the official Firebase API. data for news monitoring, tech trend analysis and AI research datasets.

The Hacker News Top Stories Scraper extracts structured records from Hacker News. Every record captures the canonical fields you would expect from the upstream source - ready for analytics, dashboards, BI tooling, or further enrichment.

The dataset spans hacker news (top, new, best, ask, show, job) and exposes the same data the official source publishes - normalised, paginated, and exportable.

Who uses this data?

Audience	Use Case
Researchers	Build longitudinal datasets for analysis
Compliance teams	Monitor regulated entities and filings
Journalists	Investigate public records at scale
Data analysts	Power BI dashboards and reports
Academic researchers	Run quantitative studies on public data
Product teams	Embed live hacker news top stories records into apps

📋 What the Hacker News Top Stories Scraper does

• Queries Hacker News for the latest records
• Supports targeted filtering via the input parameters (see below)
• Returns structured records with 13 fields, no scraping artifacts
• Handles pagination automatically up to your maxItems limit
• Cleans HTML entities and normalises dates and identifiers
• Delivers results as data, or data via Apify dataset Get

💡 Why it matters: Public-data sources rarely offer bulk Get. This Actor turns the live source into a queryable dataset.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, commentCount, hnUrl, id, imageUrl, postedAt, results, score, scrapedAt, storyType, text, title, 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: Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock up to 1,000,000 items.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 free credit
2. Open the Hacker News Top Stories Scraper actor page
3. Configure your input - set filters or leave defaults
4. Set maxItems (10 for a quick preview, higher for bulk extraction)
5. Click Run and wait for the dataset to populate
6. access your results as data, or data

🔗 Recommended Actors

Actor	Description
OurAirports Global Airport Database Scraper	Get worldwide airport data including ICAO/IATA codes
FINRA BrokerCheck Scraper	Extract broker and firm registration data from FINRA
Hacker News Stories Scraper	Pull live Hacker News top stories with score and comments

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more public-data scrapers.

Need help? Visit the Apify Discord community or open a support ticket.

Disclaimer: This Actor accesses publicly available data from Hacker News in compliance with the source's terms of service. Data is provided as-is for informational purposes. Verify all records against the official source before relying on them for legal or business decisions.

🆘 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.