Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories from any section: front page, newest, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, and best. Extracts titles, URLs, points, authors, comment counts, and post ages. Great for tech trend detection, content curation, and newsletter creation. Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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Last 7 dayson this actor

1rank move
35new rivals on Hacker News

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Key figures30 readings

Price / 1k$1.15per 1,000 story

Users / 30d3↓ 1 over 30 readings

Users, all time31↑ 3 over 30 readings

Runs / 30d127↓ 57 over 30 readings

Runs / user / mo42.3runs per monthly user

Standing

#18of 381

on Hacker News, by users in the last 30 days among actors classified to this platform.

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hacker news#6

re-crawled daily

Recorded changes

2026-10-24platformPlatform standing moveleft top-10 on news.ycombinator.com (#10 → #12 of 329)—on record
2026-10-13qualityQuality grade changedB → C—on record
2026-10-05platformPlatform standing moveleft top-3 on news.ycombinator.com (#3 → #5 of 267)—on record

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What the reviews say

1 review with text — too few to summarize. We do not read themes off 1 data point; the stars above are all anyone has.

History

30 readings since 2026-09-25

Users / 30d30 readings

Users, all time30 readings

Runs / 30d30 readings

Standing30 readings

Alternatives on Hacker News

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#	Actor	Grade	Price / 1k	Users /30d	Success	Rating	Age	Fresh
13	Hacker News Data Scrapershahidirfan	—	RES$0.90 /1k	657 total	—	5.0 (2)	9m	aging
14	Resume Scraper & Candidate Sourcing - Hacker Newsangaba92	—	EVT$20.00 /1k candidate-profilehigh price	514 total	—	—	3m	fresh
15	Hacker News Scraperconstructive_calm	—	EVT$0.40 /1k story-fetchedgood price	426 total	—	5.0 (2)	6m	stale
16	News MCP — AP, BBC, NPR & Google News for AI Agentsnexgendata	—	EVT$20.00 /1k tool-callhigh price	419 total	—	—	8m	fresh
17	Web Developer Jobs Scraper: 12 Boards + Only New Jobsnomad-agent	—	RES$0.20 /1k	410 total	—	—	4m	fresh
18	Hacker News Scraperautomation-lab	C	EVT$1.15 /1k storyfair price	331 total	100.0%	5.0 (1)	8m	aging	This
19	Hacker News Search Scraper (Algolia API)chrisp1211	—	EVT$0.50 /1k recordgood price	34 total	—	—	3m	fresh
20	Hacker News Dataonescales	—	FREEfree	35 total	—	5.0 (2)	4m	aging
21	PainPoint Radar: Startup Idea Generator from Redditornamental_oversight 1 open	—	RES$29.00 /1k	332 total	—	1.0 (1)	10m	stale
22	Brand Mention & OSINT Monitorsecond_coming	—	EVT$20.00 /1k scanhigh price	33 total	—	—	4m	aging
23	Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users APIsian.agency	—	EVT$6.00 /1k OverviewItemExtracfair price	311 total	—	—	4m	aging

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