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Hacker News Stories Scraper

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Fetches Hacker News stories, Ask HN, Show HN, and job posts via the Algolia HN Search API. Returns title, author, points, comments, URL, and timestamp.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

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Developer

Ganesh B

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Total users

Monthly active users

2 days ago

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What you get

id — HN story ID
title — Story title
author — Posted by (HN username)
points — Upvote count
comments — Number of comments
type — Post type (story, ask_hn, show_hn, job)
createdAt — ISO timestamp when posted
url — External URL linked in the story
hnUrl — Direct link to the HN discussion thread
scrapedAt — ISO timestamp of when the record was collected

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
type	String	story	Post type: story, ask_hn, show_hn, job
query	String	(empty)	Optional keyword filter
maxItems	Integer	100	Max records to return

Quick Start

Find the actor in Apify Store
Click Try for free and set your inputs
Click Start and wait for the run to finish
Download results as JSON, CSV, or via the API

Sample Output

Each item in the dataset looks like this:

{
  "id": "38521043",
  "title": "Show HN: We built an open-source alternative to Datadog",
  "author": "prakhar1989",
  "points": 847,
  "comments": 213,
  "type": "story",
  "createdAt": "2024-11-01T07:42:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://github.com/highlight-run/highlight",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38521043",
  "scrapedAt": "2024-11-01T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

Monitor trending tech topics and sentiment on HN
Track Ask HN threads for market research
Build HN digest newsletters or Slack bots
Analyse tech community interest over time by keyword

Notes

Uses the official Algolia HN Search API — no HTML scraping, very stable
Data is fully public
Set maxItems to 0 for up to 1000 results per run
Rate limit: Algolia allows ~10,000 requests/hour

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