Hacker News Scraper

What this actor does

Scrape HN top stories, search, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, user profiles, comments, and AI topic digests.

Hacker News Scraper uses public Algolia and Firebase APIs to export stories, comments, users, scores, URLs, and AI-ready topic summaries without anti-bot overhead.

Use cases

• Developer market intelligence
• Startup and launch feedback monitoring
• Technical narrative tracking

Output fields

The actor is designed for compact JSON records that are easy to send into dashboards, webhooks, MCP clients, vector databases, and AI pipelines.

Best first run

Start with one narrow hacker news scraper query or a short URL list, keep the default max item limit, and confirm the returned title, url, score, comments_count fields before scaling volume.

Sample JSON output

Field values vary by source and input, but the record shape is kept compact so it can move cleanly into dashboards, webhooks, and AI workflows.

{
  "title": "Example result title",
  "url": "https://example.com/article",
  "score": 482,
  "comments_count": 96,
  "author": "example_user",
  "item_id": "4217"
}

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