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from $10.00 / 1,000 results

Hacker News Scraper — Search, Front Page, Comments & Alerts

Search Hacker News stories and comments by keyword, scrape the front page and top stories, and export full comment threads. Official HN APIs — fast, keyless, clean JSON/CSV for monitoring and research.

Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

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samwise.agency

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Quick start

Click Run — default input finds stories about "web scraping" from the last 7 days
Swap in your own keywords (your brand, competitors, tech stack)
Pro move: put this on an Apify Schedule (daily) + email/Slack integration = HN mention alerts

Sample output (story)

{
    "type": "story",
    "id": 40123456,
    "title": "Show HN: I built a tool that does X",
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40123456",
    "author": "pg",
    "points": 342,
    "numComments": 128,
    "createdAt": "2026-07-15T14:22:01.000Z",
    "matchedQuery": "web scraping"
}

Sample output (comment)

{
    "type": "comment",
    "id": 40123999,
    "author": "tptacek",
    "text": "The interesting thing here is...",
    "storyId": 40123456,
    "parentId": 40123456,
    "depth": 1,
    "createdAt": "2026-07-15T15:01:44.000Z"
}

Use cases

Launch monitoring — track your Show HN and every comment on it
Brand/competitor alerts — daily scheduled run + notification integration
Content research — what's resonating in your niche, filtered by points
Sentiment analysis — pipe comment text into your LLM pipeline
VC/founder deal flow — new Show HN launches in specific categories

Pricing

Pay per result — one result = one story or comment row delivered.

FAQ

Which API does this use? The official, public HN Search API (Algolia) and the official Firebase API. No scraping of HTML, no rate-limit games, no login.

Can I get historical data? Yes — set "last N days" to 0 for all-time search.

Can my AI agent use this? Yes — works with the Apify MCP server out of the box.

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