Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 hacker news items

Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News via the official Firebase API (top/new/ask/show/jobs) or Algolia search. Structured story fields. Empty results free. ~$0.50/1k.

Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 hacker news items

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Smorgi Apps

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Hacker News Scraper — Pay Per Result

Scrape Hacker News via the official Firebase HN API (top / new / ask / show / jobs) or HN Algolia search. HTTP-only — no browser.

Store search keywords: Hacker News scraper · HN API · Ask HN · Show HN · Y Combinator news

Why this Actor

Pain	What we do
Scraping HTML fronts	Official Firebase + Algolia JSON
Opaque failures	Empty results → not charged
Unclear pricing	Flat pay-per-result PPE (~$0.50/1k)

Example input

{
  "mode": "top",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeKids": false
}

Search mode:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "openai",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Endpoints

Mode	Endpoint
`top` / `new` / `ask` / `show` / `jobs`	`https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/{top\|new\|ask\|show\|job}stories.json` + `item/{id}.json`
`search`	`https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=&tags=story`

Output fields

Field	Description
`id`	Story / item id
`type`	`story`, `job`, etc.
`title` / `url` / `text`	Content fields
`by`	Author
`score`	Points
`time`	ISO timestamp
`descendants`	Comment count
`kids`	Comment ids (only if `includeKids`)
`scrapedAt`	Scrape time

Pricing

Pay-per-event for each delivered item.

Empty lists / zero search hits → not charged
Exact $/1k is on the Store pricing tab (~$0.50/1k)

Limitations (honest)

Firebase list modes fetch each item/{id} individually (rate-friendly delay recommended)
includeKids returns comment ids only, not nested comment bodies
Algolia search is limited to tags=story in this Actor
Dead/deleted Firebase items are skipped

Issues / feature requests: use the Actor Issues tab.

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