💼 Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper

🚀 Parse the monthly Ask HN: Who is hiring? threads into structured job postings with company, role, salary, location, remote, visa, and stack auto-detected.

The Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper parses the monthly Ask HN: Who is hiring? threads into structured job postings. Output includes company, role, location, remote/onsite/hybrid flags, salary range with currency, visa-support detection, employment type, full description, and a direct link to the original HN comment.

Each Who's Hiring thread carries hundreds of top-level comments, each posted by a hiring manager with a structured Company | Role | Location | Type | Salary | Visa header. The Actor parses every comment, auto-detects 60+ tech stacks (Python, Rust, React, AWS, LLMs, Web3), and lets you filter by keyword, remote-only, salary minimum, or specific stack.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Recruiters, hiring managers, job seekers, salary-research analysts, dev-tool marketers, NLP/ML pipelines	Job-market intelligence, salary benchmarking, recruiting candidate sourcing, dev-tool ICP mapping, content marketing on hiring trends

📋 What the Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 📅 Pick any month. 2026-05 for May 2026, or current for the latest available thread.
• 🔍 Keyword filter. Match across role, company, stack, and description.
• 🌍 Remote-only filter. Restrict to postings tagged remote (excluding onsite-only flags).
• 💰 Salary minimum. Filter to jobs with parsed salaries at or above a USD threshold.
• 🛠️ Stack filter. Match jobs mentioning a specific technology (Python, Rust, React, LLM).

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering removes the parser-and-pagination work from your team and keeps your dataset fresh on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: company, employmentType, hnCommentUrl, hnUser, location, remote, role, salaryRaw, stackText, threadMonth, visa. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick your filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Y Combinator, Hacker News, or any individual hiring company. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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