Hacker News Scraper

Pricing

Pay per usage

Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and user profiles. Get top, new, best, ask, and show stories with scores and metadata. Built for content curation and trend analysis.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

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Developer

Donny Nguyen

Maintained by Community

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Monthly active users

21 hours ago

Last modified

Hacker News Scraper - Extract Stories & Comments Data

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and user profiles. Get top, new, best, ask, and show stories with scores, authors, and metadata.

Key Features

Scrape 6 feed types (top/new/best/ask/show/jobs)
Search by keyword via Algolia API
Optionally fetch top comments per story
Filter by minimum score

Cost

This actor uses pay-per-usage pricing. Typical runs cost $0.01-0.05 depending on scope.

Input Example

{
  "feedType": "top",
  "maxResults": 10
}

Output Example

{
  "id": 12345678,
  "title": "Show HN: My Cool Project",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678",
  "author": "username",
  "score": 256,
  "commentCount": 89,
  "createdAt": "2026-02-02T10:00:00.000Z",
  "type": "top",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-02T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

Content curation and trend analysis
Startup and tech news monitoring
Research on developer sentiment
Building HN dashboards and alerts

Limitations

HN API rate limits may slow large requests; comments add significant fetch time

Built By

Donny Dev - Blockchain & automation developer

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