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Hacker News Comments Scraper: full thread text by story, bulk

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All comments under Hacker News stories, up to 200 stories per run and up to 2,000 comments each, in thread order with depth and parent: plain text, time, reply count and comment link, plus the story's title, points and URL on every row, from the official Algolia API. No usernames. Pay per comment.

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from $0.35 / 1,000 comment listeds

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Steadydata Team

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You can access the Hacker News Comments Scraper: full thread text by story, bulk 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 API & Integrations 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 = { "stories": [
9        "45148944",
10        "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45148944",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("steadydata/hacker-news-comments").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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 Comments: full thread text per story, bulk API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Comments Scraper: full thread text by story, bulk API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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