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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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Developer

Skystone

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

2 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

News

Automation

You can access the Hackernews 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "startUrls": [
9        { "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/" },
10        { "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/newest" },
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("skystone_labs/hackernews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hackernews Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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