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Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Jobs, Ask HN, Show HN

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Extract top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job posts from Hacker News via the official API.

Pricing

from $0.10 / 1,000 results

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Developer

Andres Garcia-Baquero Leon

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Monthly active users

11 days ago

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What can it scrape?

Top stories
New stories
Best stories
Ask HN
Show HN
Job posts

Input

{
  "storyType": "top",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "includeText": false
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
`storyType`	string	`top`	One of `top`, `new`, `best`, `ask`, `show`, `job`
`maxResults`	integer	`50`	Number of stories to return, 1-500
`includeText`	boolean	`false`	Include HTML text body when available

Output

{
  "id": 123,
  "type": "story",
  "title": "Example story",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123",
  "by": "pg",
  "score": 100,
  "time": 1710000000,
  "descendants": 42,
  "kids": [1, 2, 3]
}

Use cases

AI/RAG datasets from tech discussions
Trend monitoring for startups and developers
Job post monitoring
Market research and news alerts

Pricing

Pay Per Event:

$0.002 per story returned

You only pay when data is returned.

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