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Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Search & Comment Analysis

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Scrape Hacker News top, new, best, Ask, Show and job stories, or search all of HN history. Each story comes with its comment thread analyzed: top commenters, key terms, most-replied comments. No login, no API key. Built by Physea Labs · Liminal.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 story scrapeds

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Search & Comment Analysis 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.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "mode": "top",
10    "searchQuery": "AI agents",
11    "maxItems": 10,
12    "maxCommentsPerStory": 50,
13}
14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
16run = client.actor("physealabs/hackernews-intelligence-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
19print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
20for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
21    print(item)
22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Search & Comment Analysis API in Python

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