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Hacker News Scraper
Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, jobs, and user profiles. Modes: top/new/best/ask/show/jobs/past/item/user/search. Filters: minScore, domainFilter, dateRange, commentMinScore. No proxy, no auth.
- Price
- $0.002 per result
- Runs to date
- 274
- Teams using it
- 5
- Last updated
- 2026-05-02
Run it from the API
POST · run and wait for the datasetcURL
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawlerbros~hackernews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "maxItems": 50 }' \
-G --data-urlencode "token=$APIFY_TOKEN"Billed $0.002 per result. The call returns the dataset directly, so there is nothing to poll for a run of this size.
Hacker News Scraper vs the other Comment scrapers
All 37 are ours and all are maintained, so the choice is about fit rather than quality. None of them cost less per result.
| Scraper | Price | Runs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News Scraperthis page | $0.002 | 274 | not yet rated |
| SlashDot Crawler | $0.002 | 284 | 5.0 (3) |
| Dev.to Scraper | $0.005 | 138 | not yet rated |
| Hacker News Stories, Comments & Users Scraper | $0.005 | 117 | not yet rated |
| Hacker News Scraper | $0.005 | 107 | not yet rated |
| Lobsters Scraper | $0.005 | 106 | not yet rated |
| Vimeo Scraper | $0.005 | 90 | not yet rated |
| Juejin Scraper | $0.005 | 51 | not yet rated |
| Hupu Scraper | $0.005 | 46 | not yet rated |
| Hive Blog Scraper | $0.005 | 45 | not yet rated |
| TeamBlind Scraper | $0.005 | 0 | not yet rated |