Pricing

Pay per usage

Hacker News Comment Scraper

Scrape nested Hacker News comments by story URL or keyword search. Extract author, timestamp, text, and reply trees. Built for developers building HN-powered integrations and analytics tools.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

0.0

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Developer

pit 2017

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

9 hours ago

Last modified

What does this Actor do?

Hacker News Comment Scraper lets you extract comments from any Hacker News story via URL, or search HN by keyword to find stories and scrape their comments.

Use cases

Build HN analytics dashboards
Monitor discussions about your product/tech
Train datasets on developer discussions
Power HN-based recommendation engines

Features

Two modes: URL scrape and keyword search
Extracts author, timestamp, comment text, nested replies
Configurable depth limit
JSON output ready for downstream processing

Input examples

Mode: url, storyUrl: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678
Mode: search, searchQuery: "AI startup funding", maxComments: 50

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0005 per comment returned. Minimum charge: $0.01 per run.

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