Hacker News Scraper — Submissions, Jobs, Users & Comments
Pricing
from $0.50 / 1,000 items
Scrape Hacker News top/new/best/ask/show/job/user submissions. Returns title, author, score, comments, URL, and full text. No login required. Pay-per-result.
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