You can access the Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users 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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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "query": "who is hiring"
12};
13
14// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15const run = await client.actor("piposlab/hacker-news-scraper").call(input);
16
17// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
18console.log('Results from dataset');
19console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
20const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
21items.forEach((item) => {
22    console.dir(item);
23});
24
25// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users API in Python

Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users API through CLI

Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users OpenAPI definition

Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments, Jobs, Users API

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Jobs, Comments & Users API

bovi/hacker-news-scraper

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cloud9_ai/hackernews-scraper

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technicaldost/hackernews-scraper

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Technical Dost Solutions

Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Items & Users

justfeel/hackernews-scraper

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gentle_cloud/hacker-news-scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and user data. Supports top/new/best/ask/show/job story feeds and full-text keyword search via the Algolia API. Extract titles, URLs, scores, authors, comment counts, and timestamps.

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149

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Profiles

lone_cipher/hacker-news-scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comment trees, and submitter profiles via the public Firebase API. No login, no auth, no rate limits. Six feed modes (top, new, best, ask, show, job).

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Hacker News Scraper

vernacular_reservoir/hacker-news-scraper

Scrape Hacker News top, new, best, ask, show and jobs stories. Extract title, URL, score, author, comment count and age. Optionally include top comments. No API key required. Perfect for tech news monitoring and trend analysis.