Hacker News Scraper: Search, Comments & Who's Hiring
Pricing
from $0.20 / 1,000 hacker news items
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.
You can access the Hacker News Scraper: Search, Comments & Who's Hiring programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "mode": "search",10 "query": "web scraping",11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("parth-tools/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper: Search, Comments & Who's Hiring API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: