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Hacker News Scraper

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Scrapes Hacker News by search, user, listing (front page/new/ask/show/jobs/best), or specific threads.

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from $1.00 / 1,000 dataset rows

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Developer

R.L.

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Monthly active users

8 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Social media

Mode

mode

Required

What to scrape: search results, a user's profile and submissions, a listing page (front page / newest / etc.), or specific threads.

Type:string

Default:listing

Options:

searchuserlistingthreads

Search query

searchQuery

Optional

Text to search for. Only used when mode is search.

Type:string

Search sort order

searchSort

Optional

Sort search results by relevance or by date. Only used when mode is search.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancedate

Search result type

searchType

Optional

Restrict results to this item type, matching the hn.algolia.com search UI's tabs (it defaults to Stories, not everything). Only used when mode is search.

Type:string

Default:story

Options:

storycommentpolljobask_hnshow_hnfront_pageall

Username

username

Optional

Hacker News username to scrape the profile and submissions of. Only used when mode is user.

Type:string

List type

listType

Optional

Which listing to scrape. Only used when mode is listing.

Type:string

Default:top

Options:

topnewbestaskshowjobs

Thread URLs

threadUrls

Optional

HN thread URLs to scrape, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1. Only used when mode is threads.

Type:array

Default:

[]

Include comments

includeComments

Optional

Whether to scrape the full comment tree for each thread. Only used when mode is threads.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Max items

maxItems

Optional

Maximum number of items to output (0 = unlimited).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Max pages

maxPages

Optional

Maximum number of listing/search result pages to fetch (0 = unlimited). Not used in user or threads mode.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:1

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Specifies proxy servers that will be used by the scraper in order to hide its origin.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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