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Hacker News Keyword Monitor

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Find recent Hacker News stories and comments mentioning your keywords, with points, author and link, via the official HN Algolia API. For brand, competitor and lead monitoring. Each returned mention is one charged mention-found event; error and summary rows are free.

Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 mention founds

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How it works

One search request per keyword against the official HN Algolia API (hn.algolia.com), restricted to the last N days.
Returns matching stories and comments with title, author, points, URL and a link to the HN discussion.
A summary row per keyword (free) reports how many mentions were returned.

Input

{"keywords": ["Apify", "your brand"], "daysBack": 7, "maxPerKeyword": 5}

keywords: 1-50 keywords or phrases.
daysBack: 1-30, default 7.
maxPerKeyword: 1-100, default 5 (most recent matches first).

Output

One dataset row per mention: matched keyword, item type (story or comment), title, author, points, external URL, HN discussion link and creation time. Error and summary rows are included free.

Charging

Pay per event: one mention-found event per returned story or comment ($0.005). Summary and error rows are free.

Limitations

Monitors Hacker News only, via its public Algolia index; indexing lag of a few minutes is normal.
Substring relevance depends on your keywords; no sentiment or dedup across keywords beyond what the API returns.

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