# Hacker News - Who Is Hiring Structured Job Extractor (`troy_007/hn-who-is-hiring-extractor`) Actor

Turns the monthly HN 'Ask HN: Who is hiring?' thread into clean structured job data: company, role, location, remote, tech stack, salary, and apply info.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/troy\_007/hn-who-is-hiring-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Pathik Shah](https://apify.com/troy_007) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

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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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Hacker News – Who Is Hiring Structured Job Extractor

Turn the monthly **"Ask HN: Who is hiring?"** thread into clean, structured, ready-to-use job data. Every month thousands of high-quality tech jobs are posted on Hacker News as free-form comments — great to read, painful to work with. This Actor parses them into columns you can filter, export, and load anywhere.

### What you get per job

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `company` | Hiring company name |
| `role` | Job title / role |
| `location` | Detected location |
| `remote` | Remote / Hybrid / Onsite / Not specified |
| `techStack` | Detected technologies (React, Python, Go, AWS, …) |
| `salary` | Salary if the poster included one |
| `applyUrl` | Application link if present |
| `applyEmail` | Application email if present |
| `postedBy` | HN username |
| `threadDate` | Which monthly thread it came from |
| `commentUrl` | Direct link to the original HN comment |
| `fullText` | Full cleaned comment text |

### Why this Actor

- **Reliable** — uses the official Hacker News API, not fragile HTML scraping. No blocking, no proxies needed.
- **Structured** — content-aware parsing classifies each field by pattern, not brittle column position.
- **Filterable** — pull only remote jobs, only jobs mentioning your stack, or only a location.

### Use cases

- Recruiters and job-board operators aggregating fresh, high-quality tech roles
- Developers tracking who's hiring for their stack, remotely
- Founders and researchers analysing hiring trends, salaries, and tech demand over time

### Input

| Option | Type | Default | Description |
|--------|------|---------|-------------|
| `monthsToScrape` | integer | 1 | How many recent monthly threads to process (1 = current month) |
| `remoteOnly` | boolean | false | Return only remote / hybrid jobs |
| `keywords` | array | \[] | Only jobs whose text contains one of these terms |
| `locationFilter` | string | "" | Only jobs whose location contains this text |
| `maxItems` | integer | 0 | Cap on jobs returned (0 = no limit) |

### Example output

```json
{
  "company": "Komodo Health",
  "role": "Software Engineer",
  "location": "Remote US",
  "remote": "Remote",
  "techStack": ["go", "rust", "ai"],
  "salary": "$200–298k",
  "applyUrl": "https://komodohealth.com/careers",
  "postedBy": "ramraj07",
  "threadDate": "2026-07-01",
  "commentUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=..."
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per result — you only pay for the structured jobs returned. Runs are fast and cheap because there is no browser rendering or proxy overhead.

# Actor input Schema

## `monthsToScrape` (type: `integer`):

How many of the most recent monthly 'Who is hiring?' threads to process (1 = current month only).

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

If enabled, only postings detected as remote-friendly are returned.

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

Only return jobs whose text contains at least one of these keywords (case-insensitive). Leave empty for all jobs.

## `locationFilter` (type: `string`):

Only return jobs whose detected location contains this text (e.g. 'London', 'US', 'India'). Case-insensitive.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on number of jobs pushed to the dataset. 0 = no limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "monthsToScrape": 1,
  "remoteOnly": false,
  "keywords": [],
  "locationFilter": "",
  "maxItems": 0
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("troy_007/hn-who-is-hiring-extractor").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("troy_007/hn-who-is-hiring-extractor").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 '{}' |
apify call troy_007/hn-who-is-hiring-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=troy_007/hn-who-is-hiring-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ZmKzh9R2bHwhOqals/builds/NCtIae1C9xQPBbMS3/openapi.json