Hacker News Who is Hiring Scraper & HN Threads to Markdown
Pricing
from $4.00 / 1,000 job parseds
Turn the monthly HN "Who is hiring?" thread into job records: company, role, seniority, remote region, salary in yearly USD. Watch mode returns only new posts since the last run. Also exports Hacker News threads as Markdown for LLMs. Official APIs, no proxy.
type
Required
story or job (a parsed Who-is-Hiring post).
id
Required
HN item ID.
hn_url
Required
title
Optional
Story title (stories only).
url
Optional
External URL of the story, if any.
domain
Optional
Hostname of url.
story_type
Optional
story, ask, show, job or poll.
points
Optional
Score at fetch time.
created_at
Required
ISO 8601 timestamp of the item.
comment_count
Optional
Total descendants reported by HN.
text_markdown
Optional
Self-text of the story converted to Markdown.
comments_stored
Optional
Number of comments in comments.
markdown
Required
Whole thread (story + comments) rendered as one Markdown document; for jobs, the raw post as Markdown.
story_id
Optional
Jobs: ID of the hiring thread the post belongs to.
story_title
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Jobs: title of the hiring thread, e.g. 'Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)'.
thread_month
Optional
Jobs: month of the hiring thread as YYYY-MM.
headline
Optional
Jobs: first line of the post, usually 'Company | Role | Location | ...'.
company
Optional
Jobs: company name parsed from the headline, or from the opening of the post ('join X', 'X is hiring') when the headline starts with the role. Null when no name is stated.
role
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Jobs: role(s) parsed from the headline.
location
Optional
Jobs: location parsed from the headline.
remote
Optional
Jobs: post mentions REMOTE.
remote_detail
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Jobs: qualifier such as 'US' or 'Europe' from 'REMOTE (US)'.
onsite
Optional
Jobs: post mentions ONSITE.
hybrid
Optional
Jobs: post mentions HYBRID.
salary
Optional
Jobs: structured pay range parsed from the post: { min, max, bound, currency, interval, summary, source: 'post', annual_min, annual_max, annual_usd_min, annual_usd_max }. bound says how to read the figures: range (min-max), exact (one figure, min = max), up_to ("up to X": min null) or from ("from X", "X+": max null). interval is hour|day|week|month|year. annual_* annualise the range (hourly x 2080, monthly x 12) in the published currency; annual_usd_* convert with the day's ECB rate (null when unavailable). Same shape as Vellum Labs' ATS job-boards feed. Null when no range is parseable (see salary_text).
salaries
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Jobs: every pay figure in the post, in order of appearance (posts that list several roles state one range per role). Each item has the shape of salary plus context: the words before the amount on its line, usually the role ("Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure"), or null, and alternative_to (index of the figure it restates in another currency, else null). salary is the first figure from the headline. Empty when no figure is parseable.
salary_text
Optional
Jobs: the pay as written: the headline's salary segment ('$150k-210k'), else up to 3 figures parsed from the body ('$180,000--$250,000 / $150,000--$200,000'). Null when none.
seniority
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Jobs: level inferred from the role (Sr., Staff, Principal, Lead, Manager, Director, VP, Chief, II/III...). Null when no role was parsed or it has no level word.
years_experience_min
Optional
Jobs: minimum years of experience stated in the post ("5+ years of experience"). Null when not stated.
remote_region
Optional
Jobs: for remote posts, where they can be worked from, from the location / remote qualifier (United States, Europe, Worldwide, US or Ontario, Canada...). Worldwide for a bare Remote. Null for non-remote posts.
remote_timezone
Optional
Jobs (0.13.8): the working hours a remote post asks for, as written (US Timezones, CET ±2h, UTC-1 to UTC+3, PT/ET hours). Not a region: a post that only names hours reads Worldwide in remote_region unless the hours name a region (US time zones -> United States). Null when no hours are stated.
visa
Optional
Jobs: sponsored, not-sponsored or null.
employment_type
Optional
Jobs: full-time, part-time, contract or internship when stated (the first headline type; see employment_types for all).
employment_types
Optional
Jobs: every employment type the post states (headline, else the role, else an explicit sentence), same values and rules as the ATS job-boards feed. Empty when nothing states a type. Filter with employmentTypes.
yc_batch
Optional
Jobs: YC batch such as 'S21' when the company states it.
urls
Optional
Jobs: links in the post, then links typed without a scheme (domain + path or www., returned as https).
fetched_at
Required
ISO timestamp of the export.
comments
Optional
Flattened comment tree: { id, parent_id, author, created_at, depth, text_markdown }, depth-first.