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Hacker News Scraper: Search, Comments & Who's Hiring

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Get Hacker News stories, comments, front page and parsed 'Who is hiring?' job posts via the official HN search API. Keyword search, points/date filters, full comment threads, remote/visa/salary flags. $0.20 per 1,000 items.

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Hacker News Scraper – Search, Front Page, Comments & Who's Hiring

Pull Hacker News data into clean JSON, CSV or Excel — keyword search across all stories and comments since 2006, the current front page, complete comment threads, and the monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread parsed into job posts with remote / hybrid / onsite / visa / salary flags.

Uses the official public Hacker News search API (by Algolia) — no scraping of news.ycombinator.com pages, no login, no proxies. $0.20 per 1,000 items.

Modes

Mode	What you get
Search	Stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, YC jobs or polls matching keywords; sort by relevance or date; filter by min points, min comments, date range. Date-sorted search goes beyond the API's 1,000-hit page limit.
Front page	Stories currently on the front page with points and comment counts
Comments	Every comment of one or more stories (flattened, with depth and parent IDs)
Who is hiring	Top-level job posts from the latest (or a chosen month's) “Who is hiring?” thread: company, header fields, remote/hybrid/onsite, visa sponsorship, salary text, links. Filter by keywords and remote.

Use cases

📣 Brand & launch monitoring — schedule a date-sorted search for your product or competitors
🧑‍💻 Job hunting & recruiting research — filter Who's Hiring for “python”, “remote”, “Berlin”
📊 Trend research — how often a technology is discussed over time
🤖 AI datasets — high-quality technical discussions and comment threads for summarization or RAG

Input examples

Search newest stories about a topic with at least 20 points:

{ "mode": "search", "query": "web scraping", "itemType": "story", "sortBy": "date", "minPoints": 20, "maxItems": 500 }

Remote Python jobs from the latest Who's Hiring thread:

{ "mode": "who_is_hiring", "hiringKeywords": ["python"], "remoteOnly": true, "maxItems": 0 }

Output examples

Story:

{
    "id": 50060296,
    "type": "story",
    "title": "My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping",
    "url": "https://…",
    "domain": "…",
    "author": "…",
    "points": 114,
    "numComments": 37,
    "createdAt": "2026-10-12T18:02:32Z",
    "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060296"
}

Who's hiring post:

{
    "type": "job_post",
    "thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)",
    "company": "Sidekick Labs",
    "headerFields": ["Sidekick Labs", "Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer", "REMOTE (US)"],
    "remote": true,
    "hybrid": false,
    "onsite": false,
    "visaSponsorship": null,
    "salaryText": "$170k to $230k",
    "urls": ["https://…"],
    "text": "Sidekick Labs | Senior SWE … full post text",
    "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922609"
}

Pricing

Event	Price	When
Hacker News item	$0.0002 ($0.20 / 1,000 items)	Each story, comment or job post saved
Actor start	$0.00005	Once per run

FAQ

Is this allowed? It uses the public, documented HN Search API provided by Algolia for Hacker News, at a polite request rate.

Why is my search capped at 1,000 results? Relevance search is limited by the API; switch Sort by to Date to page through more.

Does it include user profiles or emails? No. It returns posts and comments as published (with the public username), and doesn't collect personal contact data.

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