💼 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-06 · 📊 22 fields per record · Hundreds of jobs per month · auto-detected stack · salary ranges parsed · remote/onsite/hybrid flags · visa support detection

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.

---

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

---

⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan up to 1,000,000.
month	string	"current"	`YYYY-MM` or `current` for the latest thread.
keyword	string	""	Free-text filter applied to each parsed job.
remoteOnly	boolean	false	Only return jobs tagged remote.
minSalary	integer	0	Minimum parsed salary (USD).
stack	string	""	Filter to jobs mentioning a specific stack.

Example: all current Senior + Remote roles.

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "month": "current",
    "keyword": "senior",
    "remoteOnly": true
}

Example: Python jobs paying $150k+ in May 2026.

{
    "maxItems": 200,
    "month": "2026-05",
    "stack": "Python",
    "minSalary": 150000
}

---

📊 Output

Each record contains 22 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🏢 company	string	"Pathos AI"
👤 role	string	"Senior Software / AI Engineer"
📍 location	string	null
🌍 remote	boolean	false
🏢 onsite	boolean	true
🏢 hybrid	boolean	true
📋 employmentType	string	null
💰 salaryRaw	string	null
💰 salaryMin	number	null
💰 salaryMax	number	null
💰 salaryCurrency	string	null
🛂 visa	boolean	true
🛠️ stack	array	["Python","TypeScript","BigQuery","GCP","LLM","OpenAI"]
📝 descriptionText	string	"Pathos is an oncology biotech..."
📅 threadMonth	string	"2026-05"
👤 hnUser	string	"founder123"
🔗 hnCommentUrl	string	"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975572"
📅 postedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-05-01T16:00:00Z"

📦 Sample records

---

✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🛠️	Auto-stack detection. 60+ tech keywords scanned per posting (languages, frameworks, clouds, AI providers).
💰	Salary parsing. Heuristic match on USD/EUR/GBP ranges and singletons; min/max extracted as numbers.
🌐	Remote/onsite/hybrid. Three boolean flags from contextual parsing.
📅	Month-by-month archives. Pull any historical Who's Hiring thread by YYYY-MM since 2011.
⚡	Fast. 100 jobs in under 30 seconds; 300+ in a few minutes.

---

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ This Actor	$5 free credit	~300 jobs/month	Live per run	month, keyword, remote, salary, stack	⚡ 2 min
Manual HN scrolling	Free	Manual	Live	Read each	🐢 Hours per month
Whoishiring.io	Free	Same source, web UI	Variable	Limited	🕒 Manual export
LinkedIn / Indeed	Variable	Different audience	Live	Yes	🐢 Account

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

---

🚀 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.

---

💼 Business use cases

👔 Recruiters & Sourcers Build candidate-target lists by stack Track hiring velocity in your niche Identify companies hiring for your specialty Salary benchmarks for offer pitches	📊 Salary Research Track market salary ranges by role and stack Compare remote vs onsite premiums Year-over-year salary inflation Geo-based pay gap analysis
🛒 Dev Tool Marketing Identify ICP companies hiring for your stack Spot hiring booms in target verticals Power partnership outreach Build custom landing pages by stack	🎯 Job Seekers Filter for visa-friendly, remote, your stack Surface high-quality jobs without scrolling Track follow-up commitments Build a pipeline of applications

---

🔌 Automating Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Hourly, daily, or weekly refreshes keep downstream databases in sync automatically.

---

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Tech-labor-market research Salary inflation studies Remote work prevalence research Reproducible HN job snapshots	🎨 Personal and creative Personal job-search dashboards Salary-tracking newsletters Side projects on hiring trends Hobbyist career planning
🤝 Non-profit and civic Tech-job accessibility research Remote-work advocacy data Diversity and inclusion analysis Bootcamp outcome tracking	🧪 Experimentation Train job-classification ML models Prototype salary-prediction features Test resume-job matching Build job-recommendation engines

---

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

---

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Each month, Hacker News mods post 'Ask HN: Who is hiring?' as a thread. Top-level comments are job postings from individual companies. The Actor finds the right thread for the requested month, fetches every top-level comment, and parses each into a structured job record.

📅 How far back does it go?

Who's Hiring threads have run monthly since April 2011. Any month from 2011 to current is searchable.

📊 How many fields per record?

22, including company, role, location, remote/onsite/hybrid, salary range with currency, visa support, employment type, full description, stack, and HN comment URL.

🛠️ How accurate is stack detection?

60+ tech keywords scanned by case-insensitive word boundary. Catches the major languages, frameworks, clouds, databases, and AI providers. False negatives possible for very niche or vague mentions.

💰 Why is my salary minimum filter dropping jobs?

Salary parsing is heuristic. If a posting has no parseable salary header (e.g. 'competitive' or no header at all), salaryMin is null and won't match. Set minSalary: 0 to keep them.

🔁 Can I schedule runs?

Yes. Schedule it for the 1st of each month to auto-pull the new Who's Hiring thread.

⚖️ Is this data public?

Yes. Hacker News content is publicly browsable. Only public posts are collected.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free plan covers preview runs. A paid plan unlocks higher item counts and scheduling.

🆘 What if a run fails?

Apify retries transient errors. Partial datasets are preserved.

📅 What does month: current mean?

The latest available Who's Hiring thread, usually posted on the 1st of the current month.

---

🔌 Integrate with any app

Hacker News Who's Hiring Jobs Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes.

---

🔗 Recommended Actors

• 📊 Stack Exchange Questions - Search 170+ Stack Exchange sites
• 💻 VS Code Marketplace - VS Code extensions catalog
• 🎌 AniList Anime/Manga - Anime, manga, light novels
• 📰 Hacker News Search (existing) - Stories, comments, users from HN
• 📊 Greenhouse Jobs Scraper - Greenhouse-hosted company job pages

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

---

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

---

⚠️ 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.