# Changelog of Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users API (`sian.agency/hacker-news-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/hacker-news-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/hacker-news-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Hacker News Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-06-24]

#### 🎉 Hacker News Scraper - Launch!

- **Front-Page Lists** - Scrape Top, Newest, Best, Ask HN, Show HN and Jobs into clean datasets
- **Full-Text Search** - Find every story or comment mentioning any keyword, product or company
- **Detail Mode with Threads** - Pull the full body text, parent chain and child comment IDs
- **User Profiles** - Extract karma, account age, bio and submission count by username
- **Author Enrichment** - Optionally attach each author's profile to detail rows
- **Type Filters** - Restrict searches to stories, comments, polls, jobs, Ask HN or Show HN

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Turn the entire Hacker News front page into a structured table in seconds
- No account, no API key, no rate-limit headaches — just press Start
- Pay-per-result pricing: only charged for items you actually extract
- Export to JSON, CSV or Excel straight from the dataset

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Founders tracking tech trends from the Top and Best front pages
- Growth teams monitoring brand and competitor mentions in stories and comments
- Researchers analyzing full comment threads and discussion structure
- Recruiters mining the Jobs list and "Who is hiring?" threads
- ML engineers building clean tech-news datasets for fine-tuning and RAG