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Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Comments & Hiring Jobs $0.15/1K

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Hacker News data from the official HN APIs: front-page stories, keyword search with date and points filters, full comment trees, user profiles, and Who is hiring posts parsed into job records. $0.15 per 1,000 results.

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from $0.09 / 1,000 results

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Developer

Plot Point Technologies

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

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tags

Optional

Limit results to these types (any of them): story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn, job, poll, front_page. You can also add author_USERNAME or story_ID (these must all match).

Type:array

Default:

[
  "story"
]

Author username

author

Optional

Only items by this HN user.

Type:string

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

relevance (with popularity) or date (newest first). Date sort can go past Algolia's 1,000-hit limit per query.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedate

From date

dateFrom

Optional

Only items created on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD, or relative like '7 days', '3 months'.

Type:string

To date

dateTo

Optional

Only items created on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD, or relative like '1 day'.

Type:string

Minimum points

minPoints

Optional

Only stories with at least this many points.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Minimum comments

minComments

Optional

Only stories with at least this many comments.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Story IDs or URLs

storyIds

Optional

HN item IDs or news.ycombinator.com/item?id=... links. A comment link resolves to its story.

Type:array

Include comments

includeComments

Optional

Return every comment, flattened in HN display order with depth, parentId and position.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Maximum comments per story

maxCommentsPerStory

Optional

0 = all comments (still limited by Maximum results).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Usernames

usernames

Optional

HN usernames, e.g. pg, dang.

Type:array

Include submissions

includeSubmissions

Optional

Also return the user's most recent stories and comments.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Maximum submissions per user

maxSubmissionsPerUser

Optional

0 = all (still limited by Maximum results).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:50

Month (YYYY-MM)

hiringMonth

Optional

Which monthly 'Ask HN: Who is hiring?' thread to parse, e.g. 2026-10. Leave empty for the latest.

Type:string

Keywords (any)

hiringKeywords

Optional

Only job posts mentioning any of these words, e.g. rust, python, machine learning.

Type:array

Remote only

remoteOnly

Optional

Only posts marked REMOTE in their header line.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Only posts with salary

salaryOnly

Optional

Only posts that state a salary or rate in their header line.

Type:boolean

Default:false

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