Hacker News Scraper — search, front page, comments & users
Pricing
from $1.50 / 1,000 results
Turn Hacker News into structured data: full-text search all of HN history, pull the live top/new/best/ask/show/job front pages, fetch a story with its full comment thread, or get user profiles. No login — uses HN's public Algolia + Firebase APIs.
You can access the Hacker News Scraper — search, front page, comments & users programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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