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Hacker News Scraper: search stories, comments and user profiles by keyword with points, comment counts, dates and links. Filter Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, front page, minimum points and dates. Export CSV, Excel, JSON, XML. No login or API key. Covers about 50M items.

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Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments & Users API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper: Story & Comment Search locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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