Pricing

Pay per usage

Hacker News Launches Scraper

Pull Hacker News Show HN, Launch HN, front page, or single-item threads. Title, author, points, comments, external URL. Public Algolia API, no auth, no proxy.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Mori

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Monthly active users

3 days ago

Last modified

What it does

show_hn - top Show HN stories (optionally text-filtered and date-bounded). Default window: last 7 days. Sort: most points first.
launch_hn - top Launch HN stories (YC launches). Same filter options.
front_page - current Hacker News front page (top 30 by points).
item - single HN story by objectID plus its full comment tree, flattened.

Each story record carries: title, author, points, numComments, createdAt, url (external link), hnUrl (canonical HN item URL).

Input

Field	Required	Type	Description
mode	yes	enum	show_hn (default) / launch_hn / front_page / item
query	no	string	Free-text search applied to titles (show_hn / launch_hn only). Empty = no text filter.
daysBack	no	integer	Date window for show_hn / launch_hn. 0 = no date filter. Max 30.
objectID	yes (item mode)	string	HN story id (e.g. 46205632). Ignored in other modes.
maxItems	no	integer	Cap on results. Default 30, max 100. For item mode, caps comment count.

Output

One record per story (or comment, in item mode):

{
  "mode": "show_hn",
  "kind": "story",
  "source": "hn-algolia",
  "objectID": 46205632,
  "title": "Show HN: ...",
  "url": "https://...",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632",
  "author": "keepamovin",
  "points": 3346,
  "numComments": 278,
  "createdAt": "2025-12-09T15:00:38.000Z",
  "query": null,
  "daysBack": 7,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-08T..."
}

item mode also emits one record per nested comment (kind=comment) with parentId, storyId, and text (raw HTML).

Limitations

HN Algolia search returns at most 1000 hits per query - for very deep historical scans, run multiple passes with tighter daysBack windows.
No HTML rendering required - pure JSON API.

Changelog

0.1.0 - initial release.

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