Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

Hacker News Scraper

Scrape stories, jobs, comments, and polls from Hacker News using the official HN Firebase API. Get top/new/best/ask/show stories with comments, search by keyword via Algolia HN Search API. Reliable and no rate limiting.

Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

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Developer

Syed Rupom

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Total users

Monthly active users

a day ago

Last modified

What it scrapes

Story title, URL, score (points), author, and post date
Comment count and direct HN link
Top-level comments per story (optional)
Job postings from the HN jobs section
Ask HN and Show HN posts

Sample output

{
  "story_id": 40987654,
  "title": "Show HN: I built a scraper that actually works",
  "url": "https://example.com/my-project",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987654",
  "score": 342,
  "author": "pg",
  "author_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg",
  "comment_count": 128,
  "posted_at": "2024-01-15T14:32:00Z",
  "type": "show",
  "comments": [
    {
      "comment_id": 40987700,
      "author": "tptacek",
      "text": "This is impressive work...",
      "posted_at": "2024-01-15T14:45:00Z"
    }
  ]
}

Input

{
  "scrapeType": "top",
  "resultsWanted": 30,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerStory": 10,
  "minScore": 100
}

Keyword search

{
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "searchQuery": "machine learning startup",
  "resultsWanted": 50
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
`scrapeType`	string	`top`	`top`, `new`, `best`, `ask`, `show`, `jobs`, `search`
`searchQuery`	string	—	Keyword to search (search mode only)
`resultsWanted`	integer	30	Number of stories to return (up to 500)
`includeComments`	boolean	false	Fetch top-level comments for each story
`maxCommentsPerStory`	integer	10	Max comments per story (up to 50)
`minScore`	integer	0	Minimum story score filter

Scrape types

`scrapeType`	What it returns
`top`	Current front page stories
`new`	Newest submissions
`best`	All-time highest scored
`ask`	Ask HN posts
`show`	Show HN posts
`jobs`	HN job postings
`search`	Stories matching a keyword

Use cases

Tech trend monitoring: track emerging topics on HN
Startup research: find Show HN launches in a category
Job hunting: monitor HN monthly "Who is hiring?" threads
AI/LLM training data: collect high-quality discussions with scores as quality signal

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 results — HN is public, no API key needed.

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