Pricing

Pay per usage

Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users

Scrape Hacker News via official APIs: top/new/best/Ask/Show/Jobs lists, full-text search, comment trees and user profiles. No API key.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Alejandro Bufarini

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

4 days ago

Last modified

Modes

list - top / new / best / Ask HN / Show HN / Jobs story lists
search - full-text search (great for "Who is hiring" threads, topics, companies)
item - a story or comment by id, optionally with its full comment tree
user - a user profile (karma, account age, submissions)

Output (story example)

{ "id": 12345, "type": "story", "title": "...", "url": "https://...", "by": "user", "score": 412, "descendants": 88, "time": "2026-06-01T10:00:00Z", "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345" }

Flat, clean rows. Set includeComments to also pull threaded comments. Agent/MCP friendly: narrow input, fast, structured output. Built on the public HN Firebase API and the Algolia HN Search API provided by Y Combinator.

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