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Hacker News Enhanced Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and search results using the official Firebase and Algolia APIs. No proxy needed — fast, reliable, and free.

Features

• Multiple modes: Top, Best, New, Ask HN, Show HN, Job stories
• Full-text search: Keyword search via Algolia API
• Recursive comments: Fetch comment trees with configurable depth (1-5 levels)
• Advanced filters: min points, min comments, date range, domain filter
• Fast: Concurrent batch fetching (20 parallel requests)
• No proxy required: Uses official public APIs

Input

Output

Each story is output as a JSON object:

{
"id":47301085,
"title":"Example Title",
"url":"https://example.com/article",
"domain":"example.com",
"author":"username",
"points":300,
"commentsCount":67,
"createdAt":"2026-03-06T12:30:18.000Z",
"type":"story",
"comments":[]
}

Comment structure (flat)

{
"id":47301100,
"author":"commenter",
"text":"This is a comment with <i>HTML</i> formatting.",
"createdAt":"2026-03-06T13:00:00.000Z",
"depth":1
}

Examples

Get top 50 stories with 100+ points

{
"mode":"top",
"maxItems":50,
"minPoints":100
}

Search for AI stories from GitHub

{
"mode":"search",
"searchQuery":"artificial intelligence",
"maxItems":30,
"domainFilter":["github.com"]
}

Get Ask HN posts with comments

{
"mode":"ask",
"maxItems":20,
"includeComments":true,
"commentDepth":3,
"flattenComments":false
}

Data Sources

• Firebase API (hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/) — Official HN API for story lists and item details
• Algolia API (hn.algolia.com/api/v1/) — Full-text search with numeric filters

Both APIs are public and free. No authentication or proxy required.

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