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Hacker News Stories, Comments & Users Scraper

Scrape Hacker News - search stories and comments, fetch top/new/best stories, get user profiles and submission history. Uses the official Algolia HN Search API and Hacker News Firebase API.

Price
$0.005 per result
Runs to date
117
Teams using it
2
Last updated
2026-06-11

Run it from the API

POST · run and wait for the datasetcURL
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawlerbros~hacker-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "maxItems": 50 }' \
  -G --data-urlencode "token=$APIFY_TOKEN"

Billed $0.005 per result. The call returns the dataset directly, so there is nothing to poll for a run of this size.

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