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Hacker News Scraper: stories by keyword, points, comments

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Hacker News scraper for stories by keyword, up to 100 queries per run: one row per story with rank, title, link, domain, points, comment count, date and type (story, Ask HN, Show HN, job), sorted by relevance or date, with points and recency filters. Pay per story.

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from $2.76 / 1,000 story listeds

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Steadydata Team

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper: stories by keyword, points, comments 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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CLI

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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 = { "queries": [
9        "web scraping",
10        "front_page",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("steadydata/hacker-news-search").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 Scraper: stories with points and comments API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper: stories by keyword, points, comments API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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