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Hacker News Scraper
Scrape Hacker News via the public Algolia HN Search API. Search stories, Show HN, Ask HN or comments by keyword, sort by relevance or date, filter by minimum points. Clean JSON output with title, URL, author, points, comments and HN item link. No key.
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Scrape Hacker News via the public Algolia HN Search API — no API key, no login, no anti-bot. Search stories, Show HN, Ask HN, comments, or the current front page; sort by relevance or date; filter by minimum points.
What it does
- Queries
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search(relevance) orsearch_by_date(newest first). - Paginates automatically until it has collected
maxItems. - Returns clean, normalized JSON for each item (HTML stripped from story/comment text).
- Deduplicates by Hacker News
objectID.
Input
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | "openai" | Keywords to search for. Empty = newest/front-page items for the chosen tag. |
tags | select | story | story, show_hn, ask_hn, comment, or front_page. |
sortBy | select | relevance | relevance or date (newest first). |
minPoints | integer | — | Only items with at least this many points. |
maxItems | integer | 50 | Max items to return (1–1000). |
proxyConfiguration | proxy | off | Optional; the public API has no anti-bot, so no proxy is needed. Only enable it if you hit IP rate limits at very high volume. |
front_pagenote: thefront_pagetag always returns the ~30 items currently on the HN front page (no keyword search). For topic searches usestory/show_hn/ask_hn/commentinstead.
Output
Each successful item:
For comments, type is comment, title/url reflect the parent story, and text is the (HTML-stripped) comment body.
Some fields can be null depending on the item: url (Ask HN/text posts and self-posts have no external link), points and numComments (often absent on comments), and text (empty string for link stories). title, author, objectId and hnUrl are present for well-formed items but defensively default to null if the API omits them.
On failure or no results, a single diagnostic row is emitted with ok:false and an errorCode (e.g. NO_RESULTS, RATE_LIMITED, NETWORK) — and nothing is charged.
Pricing
Pay-per-result: one charge per returned item (item event). Diagnostic/empty rows are never charged.
