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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.

Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 story scrapeds

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Developer

jay casey

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Categories

Social media

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What to scrape

mode

Optional

Pick a live Hacker News list, or 'search' to query all of HN history through Algolia.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewbestaskshowjobsearch

Search query

searchQuery

Optional

Used when 'What to scrape' is 'search'. Example: LLM agents, Rust, Series A, your brand name.

Type:string

Max stories

maxItems

Optional

How many stories to return.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:30

Analyze comment threads

analyzeComments

Optional

Read each story's full thread and add top commenters, key terms and the most-replied comments. Included in the story price.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Max comments read per story

maxCommentsPerStory

Optional

Comments are read top-down (most visible first).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:2000

Default:100

Output every comment as its own row

outputCommentRows

Optional

Adds one dataset row per comment (charged per comment). Leave off if the per-story analysis is enough.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Minimum points

minPoints

Optional

Skip stories below this score. 0 keeps everything.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Only the last N days

sinceDays

Optional

Keep stories posted in the last N days. 0 means no date limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:3650

Default:0

Search in

searchTags

Optional

What kind of item the search matches (search mode only).

Type:string

Default:story

Options:

storycommentask_hnshow_hnjobpollfront_page

Sort search results by

sortBy

Optional

Relevance (Algolia ranking, favours popular items) or newest first.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedate

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