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Hacker News Data Scraper

Hacker News Data Scraper

epctex/hackernews-scraper
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Extract Y Combinator's Hacker News based on any search criteria. Crawl the front page, Show HN, Ask HN, news, job listings, and historical data. Get links, titles, comments, ratings, and more!

The code examples below show how to run the Actor and get its results. To run the code, you need to have an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the code with your API token, which you can find under Settings > Integrations in Apify Console. Learn mode

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4const client = new ApifyClient({
5    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
6});
7
8// Prepare Actor input
9const input = {
10    "startUrls": [
11        {
12            "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/front"
13        },
14        {
15            "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/show"
16        },
17        {
18            "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs"
19        },
20        {
21            "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com"
22        },
23        {
24            "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26566373"
25        }
26    ],
27    "maxItems": 50,
28    "endPage": 1,
29    "extendOutputFunction": ($) => { return {} },
30    "proxy": {
31        "useApifyProxy": true
32    }
33};
34
35(async () => {
36    // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
37    const run = await client.actor("epctex/hackernews-scraper").call(input);
38
39    // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
40    console.log('Results from dataset');
41    const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
42    items.forEach((item) => {
43        console.dir(item);
44    });
45})();
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  • 2 monthly users
  • 99.3% runs succeeded
  • Created in Mar 2021
  • Modified about 9 hours ago