Pricing

Pay per usage

HN Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories with title, author, score, comments, and timestamps. Supports top, new, best, ask, and show story types. Free API, no proxies needed. Clean structured JSON output.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Usman Mirza

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Monthly active users

20 days ago

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Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories. Fast, reliable, uses public API.

Features

5 story types - top, new, best, ask, show
Clean output - title, author, score, comments, URL, timestamp
No login required - Uses HN's public Algolia API
Fast - Direct API calls, no browser needed
Free to run - No proxies needed

Use Cases

Tech trend monitoring - Track what's trending on HN
Content research - Find popular topics
Developer insights - See what developers care about
Market research - Monitor tech industry trends
Data analysis - Build datasets for research

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
storyType	string	"top"	top, new, best, ask, show
maxItems	integer	30	Max stories to fetch (1-100)

Output

Each story includes:

id - HN story ID
title - Story title
author - Author username
score - Upvote count
comments - Comment count
url - External URL
hnUrl - HN discussion URL
type - Story type
createdAt - ISO timestamp

Pricing

$0.001 per result (pay-per-event)

License

MIT

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