🟧 Hacker News Watchlist Scraper
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 hacker news records
Scrape Hacker News stories and comments across top, new, best, ask, show, jobs streams. Normalized JSON, ISO dates, author karma + account age, AI-ready markdown. Watchlist mode emits only new records since the last run. Export, run via API, schedule, or integrate with other tools.
You can access the 🟧 Hacker News Watchlist Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "streams": [12 "top"13 ],14 "domainAllowlist": []15};16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish18const run = await client.actor("skootle/hackernews-watchlist").call(input);19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)21console.log('Results from dataset');22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();24items.forEach((item) => {25 console.dir(item);26});27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use 🟧 Hacker News Watchlist Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: