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Hacker News Scraper

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Stories, comments, users and the live front page from the Hacker News APIs. Time-slices past the 1,000-result ceiling that caps every other HN scraper, and flags upstream's match count as an estimate when it is one — the two search endpoints disagree about it by up to 111x.

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Hacker News Scraper API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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