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Hacker News Top Stories

Scrape top stories from Hacker News by section. Extract story titles, URLs, points, authors, and comment counts from the front page, new, ask, show, or jobs sections.

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Pay per usage

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Developer

Jordan C

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Hacker News Top Stories Scraper

A Cheerio-based Apify Actor that scrapes top stories from Hacker News with pagination support.

Features

Scrapes stories by section: Top, New, Ask HN, Show HN, Jobs
Extracts: rank, title, URL, domain, points, author, comment count, comment URL, posted age, scraped timestamp
Paginates through the "More" link to reach the requested number of results
Configurable max results (1–500, default 30)

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`section`	enum	`top`	HN section: `top`, `new`, `ask`, `show`, `jobs`
`maxResults`	integer	`30`	Maximum number of stories to collect (1–500)

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
`rank`	integer	Position on the page (1-indexed)
`title`	string	Story title
`url`	string	Link to the story
`domain`	string	Domain extracted from the URL
`points`	integer	Upvote score
`author`	string	Submission author username
`comments`	integer	Number of comments (0 if none)
`commentUrl`	string	Link to the HN discussion page
`postedAge`	string	Relative time string (e.g., "2 hours ago")
`scrapedAt`	string	ISO 8601 timestamp when scraped

Usage

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run locally (uses .actor/input_schema.json defaults or storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json)
apify run

# Build for production
npm run build

# Validate input schema
apify validate-schema

Local Development

Set input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json or use apify run --input:

{ "section": "show", "maxResults": 10 }

Run: npm run start:dev or apify run

Deployment

apify login
apify push

Technical Notes

Built with Crawlee CheerioCrawler — no browser overhead, fast scraping
Automatically paginates through HN's "More" links
Handles Ask HN / Show HN relative URLs
Uses Apify proxy configuration for reliable access
PPE charge events: search-start ($0.005) and story-result ($0.002 per story)

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