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Hacker News Scraper: npm & PyPI Developer Signals

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Track Hacker News mentions, Show HN and Launch HN posts, plus npm and PyPI package versions, repo links and download counts, in one dataset. Keyless public APIs. From $0.001 per item.

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Hacker News Scraper API: npm and PyPI Developer Signals API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper: npm & PyPI Developer Signals locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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Hacker News Scraper: npm & PyPI Developer Signals API

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