Hacker News Scraper

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Extract stories, comments, and job postings from Hacker News. Scrape the front page, new stories, Ask HN, Show HN, or search by keyword. Priced at $0.50 per 1,000 results.

What it scrapes

• Story title, URL, score (points), author, and post date
• Comment count and direct HN link
• Top-level comments per story (optional)
• Job postings from the HN jobs section
• Ask HN and Show HN posts

Sample output

{
"story_id":40987654,
"title":"Show HN: I built a scraper that actually works",
"url":"https://example.com/my-project",
"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987654",
"score":342,
"author":"pg",
"author_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg",
"comment_count":128,
"posted_at":"2024-01-15T14:32:00Z",
"type":"show",
"comments":[
{
"comment_id":40987700,
"author":"tptacek",
"text":"This is impressive work...",
"posted_at":"2024-01-15T14:45:00Z"
}
]
}

Input

{
"scrapeType":"top",
"resultsWanted":30,
"includeComments":true,
"maxCommentsPerStory":10,
"minScore":100
}

Keyword search

{
"scrapeType":"search",
"searchQuery":"machine learning startup",
"resultsWanted":50
}

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Use cases

• Tech trend monitoring: track emerging topics on HN
• Startup research: find Show HN launches in a category
• Job hunting: monitor HN monthly "Who is hiring?" threads
• AI/LLM training data: collect high-quality discussions with scores as quality signal

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 results — HN is public, no API key needed.