Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments, and user data. Supports top/new/best/ask/show/job story feeds and full-text keyword search via the Algolia API. Extract titles, URLs, scores, authors, comment counts, and timestamps.

Publisher description, verbatim
Last 7 dayson this actor
Each one reaches followers by email the morning after.Follow this actor
Key figures30 readings
Price / 1k$0.20per 1,000 results
Users / 30d55↑ 23 over 30 readings
Users, all time214↑ 65 over 30 readings
Runs / 30d895↑ 397 over 30 readings
Runs / user / mo16.3runs per monthly user
Standing
#2of 381

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

Store search presence
2top-10 keywords

best #2 for “hacker news”

  • hacker news#2
  • hacker news scraper#2
re-crawled daily
Recorded changes
  • 2026-09-30searchKeyword rank moveentered top-3 for “hacker news scraper” (outside top 100 → #1)—on record
  • 2026-09-30searchKeyword rank moveleft top-3 for “hacker” (#2 → outside top 100)—on record
showing 2 of 2 in the last 30 days · followers get the next one by email

History

30 readings since 2026-09-25
Users / 30d30 readings
09-25↑ 2310-24
Users, all time30 readings
09-25↑ 6510-24
Runs / 30d30 readings
09-25↑ 39710-24
Standing30 readings
09-25↓ 110-24

Alternatives on Hacker News

The actors either side of #2 of 381, ranked by users in the last 30 days. Same platform, adjacent adoption — the comparable set.

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#ActorGradePrice / 1kUsers /30dSuccessRatingAgeFresh
1BRES$5.00 /1ksteep price56140 total97.5%5.0 (7)4mfresh
2CRES$0.20 /1kgood price55214 total100.0%—7magingThis
3BRES$3.00 /1khigh price42115 total98.2%—2mfresh
4CEVT$8.00 /1k tool-read33113 total99.8%—8maging
5CEVT$5.00 /1k story-fetched33158 total100.0%—8maging
6CRES$2.99 /1kfair price16688 total82.7%—22maging
7DRES$0.30 /1kgood price12193 total—5.0 (7)5.6yfresh

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