Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 item scrapeds

Hackernews Scraper

Extract stories, comments, and user data from Hacker News. Get titles, URLs, scores, comment counts, authors, and timestamps. Perfect for tech trend analysis, content research, and developer community insights.

Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 item scrapeds

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Skystone

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Hacker News Scraper

Extract stories, comments, and discussion data from Hacker News. Pay only for successfully scraped items ($1 per 1,000 items).

Features

Fast extraction - Optimized for speed with lightweight page parsing
Story data - Titles, links, scores, authors, comment counts
Comment extraction - Optional full comment thread scraping
Type detection - Identifies stories, Ask HN, Show HN, and jobs
Pagination - Automatically follows "More" links for deeper scraping

Use Cases

Tech trend analysis and monitoring
Content research for newsletters
Developer community sentiment analysis
Startup and launch tracking
Academic research on tech communities

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`startUrls`	array	-	HN URLs to scrape (front page, new, ask, show, jobs)
`maxResults`	integer	100	Maximum items to scrape (0 = unlimited)
`extractComments`	boolean	false	Extract comment threads from stories
`useCamoufox`	boolean	false	Enable anti-detect browser (not needed for HN)

Output Schema

{
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345",
  "title": "Show HN: My new open source project",
  "link": "https://github.com/example/project",
  "score": 234,
  "author": "pg",
  "commentCount": 89,
  "age": "3 hours ago",
  "rank": 1,
  "type": "show",
  "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

$0.001 per successfully scraped item ($1 per 1,000 items)

No charges for failed requests.

Example Usage

{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/"},
    {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/newest"}
  ],
  "maxResults": 200,
  "extractComments": false
}

Limitations

HN may rate-limit very aggressive scraping
Comment extraction increases scraping time significantly
Very old stories may have limited data

Support

For issues or feature requests, please contact SkyStone Labs support.

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