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Hacker News Scraper

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Search Hacker News stories and comments with filters for tag, minimum score and date range. Returns title, URL, author, points, comment count, timestamps and full comment text. Sort by relevance or date, filter to front page, Show HN or Ask HN, and page up to Algolia's 1,000-hit window per query.

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Superslow Sloth

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper 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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Hacker News Scraper OpenAPI definition

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