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Hacker News Scraper: Search Stories, Comments & Threads

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Hacker News scraper and search: stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN and jobs by keyword, author, points and date, or export full comment threads. Official HN Algolia API, no login, no proxy. Great for brand monitoring.

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Developer

Tom Studio

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper: Search Stories, Comments & Threads 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

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 = {
9    "queries": ["apify"],
10    "storyIds": [],
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("tomstudio/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 - search stories & comments API API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper: Search Stories, Comments & Threads API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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