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Scrape Hacker News stories, Ask HN questions, Show HN product launches, job postings, comments, points, and sentiment. Full-text search and real-time monitoring.

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Hacker News Stories, Ask/Show HN & Comments Scraper

Fast, structured data extraction from Hacker News via the official Algolia search infrastructure. Monitor product launches, tech sentiment, developer discussions, and brand mentions without blocks or timeouts.

Features

Comprehensive HN Data: Extracts story title, external URL, permanent HN discussion link, author, points, comments count, item type (story, show_hn, ask_hn, job, comment), and full text.
Precision Filtering: Filter by category (show_hn, ask_hn, job, story), minimum karma points, minimum comments, specific author, and time window (last24h, pastWeek, pastMonth, allTime).
Flexible Sorting: Sort by overall community popularity or by real-time date order (search_by_date).
Scheduled Monitoring: Enable onlyNewItems with a stateKey to automatically get pinged whenever new discussions matching your product or keywords appear on Hacker News.
Fast & Resilient: Lightweight JSON API requests consuming minimal memory (128 MB), zero browser overhead.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`searchQuery`	String	`"Show HN"`	Search query or topic
`storyType`	String	`"story"`	`all`, `story`, `show_hn`, `ask_hn`, `job`, `comment`
`sortBy`	String	`"popularity"`	`popularity` or `date`
`minPoints`	Integer	`0`	Minimum upvote threshold
`minComments`	Integer	`0`	Minimum comments threshold
`timeRange`	String	`"allTime"`	`last24h`, `pastWeek`, `pastMonth`, `allTime`
`author`	String	`""`	Filter by submitter username
`maxResults`	Integer	`100`	Maximum items to extract
`onlyNewItems`	Boolean	`false`	Monitoring mode: only emit newly posted stories
`outputPreset`	String	`"full"`	`full`, `lean`, or `contacts`

Output Example

{
  "storyId": "41982736",
  "title": "Show HN: Spotless AI — Resilient web intelligence engine",
  "url": "https://spotless.dev",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982736",
  "author": "spotless_founder",
  "points": 342,
  "numComments": 88,
  "itemType": "show_hn",
  "storyText": "Hey HN! We built a high-speed proxy-escalating crawler...",
  "tags": ["story", "author_spotless_founder", "show_hn"],
  "createdAt": "2026-10-27T10:15:00.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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