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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Scores & Comments via Official A

Scrape Hacker News stories using the official Firebase API. Fetch top, new, best, ask, show, or job stories with title, URL, score, author, timestamp, and comment count. Optionally include top comments per story. Fast, reliable, no IP blocking — uses HN's public API. Perfect for tech trend monitorin

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Scores & Comments via Official A 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.

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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 = {
9    "mode": "top",
10    "maxResults": 10,
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("sovereigntaylor/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

Hacker News Scraper: Top Stories, Scores & Comments API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Scores & Comments via Official A API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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