Hacker News Search & Monitor - Stories, Comments, Show HN, Jobs
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from $1.00 / 1,000 result items
Hacker News Search & Monitor - Stories, Comments, Show HN, Jobs
Search Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN and job posts by keyword, author, points or date via the official HN Algolia API. Brand mentions, launch tracking, lead and hiring signals as clean JSON. $1 per 1,000 items.
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Search Hacker News by keyword, author, points, comments or date and get clean JSON/CSV/Excel. Uses the official Hacker News search API (Algolia) - no login, no browser, no proxies, so runs are fast (100 items in ~1 second) and cheap.
What you can do with it
- Brand & competitor monitoring: schedule daily with
onlyNewerThanDays: 1and get every new story or comment that mentions your product, domain or competitor. - Launch tracking: follow Show HN launches in your niche, with points and comment counts.
- Lead generation & market research: find people asking for tools in Ask HN threads and comments ("looking for", "alternative to ...").
- Hiring signals: search job posts (
itemType: job) or comments in "Who is hiring" threads. - Content & LLM pipelines: feed top discussions to n8n, Make, Zapier or an LLM for summaries.
Input
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
queries | List of keywords / brands / domains. Each one is searched separately. |
itemType | story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn, job, poll, front_page (current front page, no query needed) or all. |
sortBy | date (newest first - monitoring) or relevance. |
maxItemsPerQuery | 1-1000 (default 50). |
onlyNewerThanDays, minPoints, minComments, author | Optional filters. |
includeText | Comment / Ask HN / job text, HTML stripped. |
Example:
Output (one row per item)
For comments, storyTitle / storyUrl tell you which thread the comment belongs to. A RUN_SUMMARY record with counts is saved in the key-value store.
Pricing (pay per event)
- $0.001 per Hacker News item saved (
hn-item) - $1 per 1,000 items. - Tiny start fee per run (
apify-actor-start). - Failed queries are not charged. Set "Maximum cost per run" to cap spend - the run stops gracefully and keeps the results already saved.
Limits & notes
- The HN search API returns at most 1,000 results per query; use date / points filters or several narrower queries for more.
- Items are deduplicated across queries in the same run.
- Data comes from the public Hacker News API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.
FAQ
Can I get only new mentions every day? Yes: sortBy: date, onlyNewerThanDays: 1, and add a daily schedule in Apify.
Does it need an API key or proxy? No.
