Hacker News Scraper: Search, Comment Threads & "Who Is Hiring?" Jobs

Export Hacker News data in clean, structured form:

• Search stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs and polls by keyword and date range, with a points filter, sorted by relevance or newest first (no 1,000-result cap on date sort).
• Front page snapshot.
• Full comment threads (every nested comment with depth and parent) for any HN item.
• The monthly "Who is hiring?" thread parsed into job posts: company, roles, location, remote/onsite/hybrid, visa, salary range, links and contact emails. "Who wants to be hired?" and "Freelancer?" threads are supported too.

$1 per 1,000 items. No login, API key or proxies needed.

Why this Actor

• Hiring posts come pre-structured. Other Actors charge up to $20 per 1,000 for "Who is hiring" posts; here they're $1 per 1,000 with salary and email extraction.
• Complete history. Newest-first search walks back through time, so you can export everything about a topic.
• Discussion analysis. Export full threads with depth for sentiment, research or LLM training.
• Official data: the Algolia HN Search API that powers hn.algolia.com, so it's fast and reliable.

Input

Field	Description
searchQueries	Keywords.
itemTypes	story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn, job, poll.
sort	relevance or date.
from / to	Date range.
minPoints	Points filter for search results (not applied to comment threads; HN doesn't expose comment points).
fuzzyMatch	Off by default (exact keyword match, so shopify doesn't also return "Spotify"). Turn on for typo-tolerant search.
frontPage	Export the front page.
commentThreads	HN item URLs/IDs to export comments for.
whoIsHiring	whoishiring, whowantstobehired, freelancer.
hiringKeywords / hiringRemoteOnly	Hiring post filters.
maxItemsPerQuery / maxTotalItems	Cost caps.

{ "whoIsHiring": "whoishiring", "hiringKeywords": ["python", "rust"], "hiringRemoteOnly": true }

Output

Hiring post:

{
  "type": "hiring_post", "id": "49922609", "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922609",
  "thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)", "company": "Sidekick Labs",
  "roles": ["Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer"], "location": "REMOTE (US Timezones)", "remote": true,
  "salaryMin": 170000, "salaryMax": 230000, "salaryCurrency": "USD", "salaryText": "$170k to $230k",
  "urls": ["https://..."], "emails": ["eric+hn@sidekicklabs.com"], "text": "Sidekick Labs | Senior SWE ..."
}

Story or comment:

{ "type": "story", "id": "4058874", "title": "HackerNews API: ...", "url": "http://...", "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058874",
  "author": "sathish316", "points": 132, "numComments": 49, "createdAt": "2012-06-02T19:16:33Z", "text": null }

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 items (stories, comments or hiring posts), plus $0.00005 per run start.

Notes

Hiring posts are free-form text, so the parsing is best effort; the original text is always included.