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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

FieldTypeDefaultDescription
storyTypeenumtopStory feed: top / new / best
limitint30Max stories to fetch (≤100)
minPointsint0Minimum upvotes filter
keywordsstringComma-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