Stack Overflow Question Finder
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Stack Overflow Question Finder
Find top Stack Overflow questions by tag, time range, and quality. Uses Stack Exchange API (free, no key required for low volume). Get question titles, scores, answers, views, tags, and links. Perfect for developer research, FAQ content generation, and AI training datasets.
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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 APIcurl -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