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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Brand Mention Alerts

Scrape Hacker News stories and comments by keyword, phrase or brand, with author, points, timestamps and permalinks. Also tracks state between runs so each run returns only mentions that appeared since the last one — for launch-day monitoring, devtools marketing and founder alerts.

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from $20.00 / 1,000 change events

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Emmanuel Obiefule

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You can access the Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Brand Mention Alerts 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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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "queries": ["\"your brand\""] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("xqfech/hacker-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Brand Mention Alerts API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Brand Mention Alerts API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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