# HN Who's Hiring Parser — Structured Jobs from Hacker News (`angaba92/hn-whoishiring-parser`) Actor

Parse the monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread into structured job listings: company, role, location, remote, salary, and tech tags.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/angaba92/hn-whoishiring-parser.md
- **Developed by:** [Andres Garcia-Baquero Leon](https://apify.com/angaba92) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

## HN Who's Hiring Parser — Structured Jobs from Hacker News

Turn the monthly **"Ask HN: Who is hiring?"** thread into a clean, structured job dataset. Every month HN's hiring thread has 300-500 great job posts buried in free-text comments — this Actor parses them into fields you can filter, search, and pipe into a spreadsheet, ATS, or job board.

**Why not just use the HN API?** The official API returns each post as a raw HTML comment blob. This Actor does the hard part: it finds the right monthly thread automatically and parses each listing into `company`, `role`, `location`, `remote`, `salary`, and `techTags` — plus remote-only and keyword filtering.

### What you get per listing

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `company` | Company / org name |
| `role` | Role title |
| `location` | Location string |
| `remote` | `remote`, `onsite`, `hybrid`, or `unspecified` (auto-detected) |
| `salary` | Detected salary/range when present (e.g. `$180k–$210k`) |
| `techTags` | Detected technologies (rust, python, react, aws, …) |
| `url` | Company / application link |
| `hnUrl` | Direct link to the HN comment |
| `author` | HN username who posted |
| `postedAt` | Unix timestamp |
| `text` | Full plain-text of the listing |

### Input

```json
{
  "month": "latest",
  "remoteOnly": true,
  "keywords": ["rust", "python"],
  "maxResults": 500
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---:|---|
| `month` | string | `latest` | `latest` or a specific month like `July 2026` |
| `threadId` | string | – | Override: parse a specific HN thread item ID |
| `remoteOnly` | boolean | `false` | Only return remote / hybrid listings |
| `keywords` | array | `[]` | Only return listings matching ANY keyword |
| `maxResults` | integer | `500` | Max listings to return (1-1000) |

### Use cases

- Build or fill a **niche job board** from HN's high-signal hiring thread
- **Recruiters**: filter remote + stack in seconds instead of scrolling 400 comments
- **Job seekers**: get a filterable spreadsheet of every listing matching your stack
- **Market research**: track hiring trends, salary bands, and in-demand tech over months
- **AI/RAG datasets** of real job postings

### Pricing

Pay Per Event:

- `$0.01` per structured job listing returned

You only pay for listings actually returned (after your filters).

### Notes

- Source: official Hacker News Firebase API + Algolia HN Search (thread discovery). No HTML scraping of the website, no proxies.
- Parsing follows the community `Company | Role | Location | REMOTE | Salary | URL` convention and degrades gracefully when a post doesn't.

# Actor input Schema

## `month` (type: `string`):

Which monthly thread to parse. Use 'latest' for the newest 'Who is hiring?' thread, or a specific month like 'July 2026'.

## `threadId` (type: `string`):

Override: parse a specific HN item ID for the 'Who is hiring?' thread. Takes precedence over Month.

## `remoteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only return listings detected as remote.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only return listings whose text matches ANY of these keywords (case-insensitive), e.g. rust, python, senior.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of job listings to return (1-1000).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "month": "latest",
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "keywords": [],
  "maxResults": 500
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "month": "latest",
    "remoteOnly": false,
    "keywords": [],
    "maxResults": 500
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("angaba92/hn-whoishiring-parser").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "month": "latest",
    "remoteOnly": False,
    "keywords": [],
    "maxResults": 500,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("angaba92/hn-whoishiring-parser").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "month": "latest",
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "keywords": [],
  "maxResults": 500
}' |
apify call angaba92/hn-whoishiring-parser --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=angaba92/hn-whoishiring-parser",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zz7cUUvTUBvyiOFFW/builds/0BgLdOwt58odd74dq/openapi.json