Hacker News Scraper

Scrapes Hacker News stories, comments, jobs, polls, and user profiles via the official Firebase and Algolia APIs. Supports full-text search, Who's Hiring thread extraction, author karma snapshots, and deep comment trees.

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21new rivals on Hacker News

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Key figures30 readings

Price / 1k$0.40per 1,000 story-fetched

Users / 30d4↓ 1 over 30 readings

Users, all time22↑ 2 over 30 readings

Runs / 30d48↓ 7 over 30 readings

Runs / user / mo12.0runs per monthly user

Standing

#10of 278

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

Store search presence

2top-10 keywords

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Recorded changes

No price, README, schema or grade changes in the last 30 days · followers get the next one by email.

History

30 readings since 2026-08-27

Users / 30d30 readings

Users, all time30 readings

Runs / 30d30 readings

Standing30 readings

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#	Actor	Grade	Price / 1k	Users /30d	Success	Rating	Age	Fresh
5	Hacker News Search — Stories, Comments & Developer Sentimentryanclinton	C	EVT$5.00 /1k story-fetched	24123 total	100.0%	—	8m	aging
6	Username Availability Checker 🔍easyapi 1 open	C	RES$2.99 /1kfair price	10662 total	96.1%	—	21m	aging
7	Trends Aggregatormiccho27	C	RES$5.00 /1khigh price	663 total	100.0%	5.0 (1)	6m	aging
8	All Jobs Scraper — 19 Job Boards in Onenomad-agent	—	RES$2.00 /1kgood price	534 total	—	—	2m	fresh
9	Hacker News Scraperautomation-lab	B	EVT$1.15 /1k story	428 total	100.0%	5.0 (1)	7m	fresh
10	Hacker News Scraperconstructive_calm	—	EVT$0.40 /1k story-fetched	422 total	—	5.0 (1)	5m	aging	This
11	Hacker News Who Is Hiring Scraper – Jobs, Salary & Emaillogiover	B	RES$3.50 /1khigh price	459 total	100.0%	—	6m	fresh
12	Web Developer Jobs Scraper — LinkedIn, HN, RemoteOK + 7 Morenomad-agent	—	RES$3.00 /1kfair price	47 total	—	—	3m	fresh
13	Hacker News Data Scrapershahidirfan	—	RES$0.90 /1kgood price	456 total	—	5.0 (2)	8m	aging
14	Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments & Users APIsian.agency	—	EVT$6.00 /1k OverviewItemExtrac	49 total	—	—	3m	aging
15	Hacker News Trends — Topic, Engagement & Viral-Story Analyticsnexgendata	—	RES$50.00 /1ksteep price	351 total	—	—	7m	fresh

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