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Pay per usage

Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN and Job stories from Hacker News via the official keyless Firebase API — title, score, author, comment count and links, no proxy needed.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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0.0

(0)

Developer

Dan Cristian Podina

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Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

2 days ago

Last modified

What it does

Every front-page list — choose top, new, best, ask, show, or job.
Official, keyless source — reads the public Hacker News Firebase API, the same data that powers the site. No login, no key, no proxy.
Clean, structured output — each story as { id, title, url, score, by, time, timeIso, descendants, type, text, hnUrl }.
Reliable — a public JSON API that's meant to be fetched by machines, so it just works from a datacenter IP on the free plan.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`listType`	`top` \| `new` \| `best` \| `ask` \| `show` \| `job`	Which HN list to scrape. Default `top`.
`maxItems`	integer	How many stories to fetch from the top of the list (1–200). Default `30`.

Example input

{
  "listType": "top",
  "maxItems": 5
}

Output

Each story becomes one dataset item:

{
  "id": 42345678,
  "title": "Show HN: I built a thing",
  "url": "https://example.com/thing",
  "score": 512,
  "by": "pg",
  "time": 1754660580,
  "timeIso": "2026-08-08T14:03:00Z",
  "descendants": 137,
  "type": "story",
  "text": null,
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345678"
}

Field notes:

url is null for Ask HN and other text posts — the discussion is the content. Use hnUrl to open it on Hacker News, and text for the post body (HTML).
descendants is the comment count.
time is unix seconds; timeIso is the same instant as a UTC ISO-8601 string.

Notes

Only public data is accessed (the same JSON that powers news.ycombinator.com).
Ordering follows Hacker News' own ranking for the chosen list at the moment of the run.
The Actor makes N+1 requests: one for the id list, then one per story. Items that fail to fetch are skipped rather than aborting the run.

Local development

$apify run -i '{"listType":"top","maxItems":5}'

The fetch core (src/hn.py) has no Apify dependency and uses only the Python standard library, so it can be imported and run directly for quick testing.

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