Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Jobs, Comments & Users API

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, jobs, and user profiles via the official Firebase and Algolia APIs. No proxy, no auth. Supports top/new/best/ask/show/job feeds, full-text search, comment trees, and user data. Pay per result.

Publisher description, verbatim

Last 7 dayson this actor

1rank move
21new rivals on Hacker News

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Key figures30 readings

Price / 1k$0.19per 1,000 hn-item

Users / 30d2↑ 1 over 30 readings

Users, all time2↑ 1 over 30 readings

Runs / 30d1→ 0 over 21 readings

Runs / user / mo0.50runs per monthly user

Standing

#18of 278

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

Recorded changes

2026-09-19platformPlatform standing moveentered top-10 on news.ycombinator.com (#11 → #10 of 216)—on record
2026-09-18platformPlatform standing moveleft top-10 on news.ycombinator.com (#9 → #11 of 216)—on record
2026-09-05platformPlatform standing moveentered top-10 on news.ycombinator.com (#35 → #10 of 204)—on record

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History

30 readings since 2026-08-27

Users / 30d30 readings

Users, all time30 readings

Runs / 30d21 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 /1kfair price	456 total	—	5.0 (2)	8m	aging
14	Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users APIsian.agency	—	EVT$6.00 /1k OverviewItemExtracfair price	49 total	—	—	3m	aging
15	Hacker News Trends — Topic, Engagement & Viral-Story Analyticsnexgendata	—	RES$50.00 /1ksteep price	351 total	—	—	7m	fresh
16	Brand Mention & OSINT Monitorsecond_coming	—	EVT$20.00 /1k scanhigh price	33 total	—	—	3m	aging
17	Resume Scraper & Candidate Sourcing - Hacker Newsangaba92	—	EVT$20.00 /1k candidate-profilehigh price	25 total	—	—	51d	fresh
18	Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Jobs, Comments & Users APIbovi	—	EVT$0.19 /1k hn-itemgood price	22 total	—	—	4m	aging	This
19	Hacker News Stories, Comments & Users Scrapercrawlerbros	—	RES$5.00 /1khigh price	22 total	—	—	4m	aging
20	Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Ask/Show HN, Commentsdami_studio	—	EVT$1.00 /1k itemgood price	22 total	—	5.0 (1)	3m	fresh
21	Hacker News Search Scraperfetch_cat	—	RES$0.03 /1kgood price	22 total	—	—	3m	aging
22	Hacker News Job Scraper: Who is Hiring Postsgetascraper	—	RES$0.89 /1kgood price	24 total	—	—	4m	fresh
23	Hacker News Scraper - Stories, Jobs, Ask HN & Show HNlentic_clockss	—	RES$1.50 /1kfair price	22 total	—	—	2m	fresh

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