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Hacker News Scraper

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Search Hacker News stories, Show HN, Ask HN and comments by keyword and date, with points, comment counts and links, using the official HN search API.

Pricing

from $0.30 / 1,000 story or comments

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Rafiullah Siddiq

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

17 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

News

Developer tools

Result type

resultType

Optional

story, comment, poll, or error (errors are not charged).

Type:string

Example:

story

Query

query

Optional

The search this came from.

Type:string

Example:

web scraping

Optional

Hacker News item ID.

Type:string

Example:

45000000

Type

type

Optional

story, comment or poll.

Type:string

Example:

story

Title

title

Optional

Story title (for comments, the story they belong to).

Type:string | null

Example:

Show HN: My new scraper

Link

url

Optional

The linked article, if any.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://example.com/article

Author

author

Optional

HN username.

Type:string | null

Example:

Points

points

Optional

Story points.

Type:integer | null

Example:

250

Comments

numComments

Optional

Comment count on a story.

Type:integer | null

Example:

120

Posted

createdAt

Optional

When it was posted (ISO 8601).

Type:string | null

Example:

2026-10-30T15:00:00.000Z

Text

text

Optional

Story text (Ask/Show HN) or comment text.

Type:string | null

Example:

I built this because...

Show HN

isShowHN

Optional

True for Show HN posts.

Type:boolean

Example:

false

Ask HN

isAskHN

Optional

True for Ask HN posts.

Type:boolean

Example:

false

Story ID

storyId

Optional

The story a comment belongs to.

Type:string | null

Example:

45000000

Parent ID

parentId

Optional

The item a comment replies to.

Type:string | null

Example:

45000001

Depth

depth

Optional

Comment nesting depth (comments from Include comments).

Type:integer

Example:

HN URL

hnUrl

Optional

Link to the item on Hacker News.

Type:string

Example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000000

Error

error

Optional

Why a search returned nothing. Only on error rows.

Type:string

Example:

Nothing matched this search and these filters.

Scraped at

scrapedAt

Optional

When the item was collected.

Type:string

Example:

2026-10-31T12:00:00.000Z

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