Hacker News API – Stories, Front Page & Who Is Hiring Jobs
Pricing
from $0.15 / 1,000 rows
Hacker News as clean rows: search stories by keyword, date and points, the front page, Ask HN and Show HN, and the monthly "Who is hiring?" thread as job rows with company, role, location, remote and salary. $0.15 per 1,000 rows.
You can access the Hacker News API – Stories, Front Page & Who Is Hiring Jobs 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "mode": "search" }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("rowfeed/hacker-news-api").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News API – Stories, Front Page & Who Is Hiring Jobs API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: