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Hacker News Scraper
Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, jobs, and user profiles via the official Firebase API. Modes: top/new/best/ask/show/jobs/past/item/user/search. Filters: minScore, domainFilter, dateRange, commentMinScore. No proxy, no auth.
- Price
- $0.005 per result
- Runs to date
- 107
- Teams using it
- 2
- Last updated
- 2026-06-06
Run it from the API
POST · run and wait for the datasetcURL
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawlerbros~hackernews-tech-stories-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "maxItems": 50 }' \
-G --data-urlencode "token=$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.
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. 2 of them cost less per result.
| Scraper | Price | Runs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News Scraperthis page | $0.005 | 107 | not yet rated |
| SlashDot Crawler | $0.002 | 284 | 5.0 (3) |
| Hacker News Scraper | $0.002 | 274 | not yet rated |
| Dev.to Scraper | $0.005 | 138 | not yet rated |
| Hacker News Stories, Comments & Users Scraper | $0.005 | 117 | 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 |