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Hacker News Story & Comment Scraper

Scrape Hacker News top/new/best stories with points, comments, author info, and timestamps. Monitor tech trends, startup news, and developer discussions. Uses official Firebase API for reliable data.

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陈俊杰

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Hacker News Scraper — Apify Actor

Extract stories from Hacker News with filtering by points and keywords.

Features

Fetch top, new, or best stories
Filter by minimum points score
Filter by keywords in story titles (comma-separated)
Structured output: title, URL, points, author, comment count, timestamp
Uses official Firebase API — no scraping, no blocks

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`storyType`	enum	`top`	Story feed: top / new / best
`limit`	int	30	Max stories to fetch (≤100)
`minPoints`	int	0	Minimum upvotes filter
`keywords`	string	—	Comma-separated keywords (e.g. `AI,Python,YC`)

Output (one row per story)

{
  "id": 43254321,
  "title": "Show HN: Example Project",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "author": "username",
  "points": 342,
  "comment_count": 87,
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254321",
  "type": "story",
  "time": 1748217600
}

Use Cases

📰 Tech trend monitoring — what's trending on HN right now
🏢 Startup intelligence — track Show HN launches
🤖 AI training data — collect curated tech news content
📊 Competitive analysis — monitor developer sentiment

Example

# CLI via Apify API
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/wsgcjj~hacker-news-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"storyType":"top","limit":10,"minPoints":100,"keywords":"AI,LLM"}'

Limits

100 stories max per run (Firebase API limit)
Free API — no API key or proxy needed

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