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Pay per usage

Hacker News Scraper and Keyword Alert Monitor

Watches Hacker News new, top, Ask HN, Show HN, and jobs feeds plus Algolia search for stories and comments matching your keywords, score floor, and age window. Dedupes across runs. For founders, devtool marketers, and recruiters tracking mentions, launches, and hiring signals on HN.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Kennedy Mutisya

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Monthly active users

4 days ago

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Categories

Developer tools

Lead generation

Automation

You can access the Hacker News Scraper and Keyword Alert Monitor 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "searchQueries": [
9        "vector database",
10        "open source crm",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("scrapemint/hn-lead-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper and Keyword Alert Monitor API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper and Keyword Alert Monitor API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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