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Hacker News Scraper

Extract Hacker News posts instantly — title, URL, points, author, comments. Supports Top, New, Show HN, Ask HN and Jobs feeds. Pagination built in. Clean JSON output. No API key needed.

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Moritz Knopp

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`type`	string	Yes	`"top"`	Feed to scrape. One of `top`, `new`, `show`, `ask`, `jobs`.
`maxItems`	integer	No	`100`	Maximum number of posts to collect (1 – 500).

Output fields

Each item saved to the dataset has the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
`rank`	number	Position of the post on the page (e.g. `1`, `2`, `3`).
`title`	string	Headline text of the post.
`url`	string	Link the title points to. Internal HN links are converted to absolute URLs.
`points`	number	Karma points (upvotes). `0` for jobs posts.
`author`	string	HN username of the submitter.
`commentCount`	number	Number of comments on the post. `0` if none or not applicable.
`timePosted`	string	ISO timestamp or relative age string (e.g. `"2024-01-15 10:30:00"`).
`type`	string	Feed type that was scraped, mirrors the `type` input field.

Example input

{
  "type": "top",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example output

[
  {
    "rank": 1,
    "title": "Introducing an open-source AI coding assistant",
    "url": "https://example.com/blog/ai-coding-assistant",
    "points": 487,
    "author": "jsmith",
    "commentCount": 214,
    "timePosted": "2024-05-10 08:15:42",
    "type": "top"
  },
  {
    "rank": 2,
    "title": "Ask HN: What's your most productive terminal setup?",
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999999",
    "points": 312,
    "author": "devnerd42",
    "commentCount": 178,
    "timePosted": "2024-05-10 07:44:10",
    "type": "top"
  }
]

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