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Hacker News Scraper | Stories, Ask HN, Show HN & Who Is Hiring

Scrape Hacker News front page stories, Ask HN, Show HN posts, and Who Is Hiring threads. Extract titles, URLs, points, authors, comment counts, and job postings. Sort by points or comments. Export scraped data as JSON or CSV, run via API, schedule recurring runs, or integrate with Zapier and Make.

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper | Stories, Ask HN, Show HN & Who Is Hiring 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("resounding_diplomacy/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper – Top Stories & Trends API API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper | Stories, Ask HN, Show HN & Who Is Hiring API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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