Hacker News Data, Structured by Scraping API
Hacker News article pages run on JavaScript with active bot detection. Our stealth proxy and headless-browser layer handle both, so your client-side stays a thin HTTP call.
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Hacker News Scraping. Three Real Patterns
Hacker News scrapers usually do one of three things: track front page stories, gather startup funding rounds, or collect discussion metrics like points and comment counts.
Track top stories
Pull Hacker News front page stories, comment counts, point scores, and links daily. Feeds trend-monitoring dashboards for tech-product launches and engineering discussions.
Gather startup funding rounds
Extracting structured data on startup funding rounds aids in competitor analysis and investment trend identification, supporting informed business strategy development.
Collect discussion metrics
Analyze discussion metrics to surface trends in audience engagement, enabling strategic decision-making and effective response tactics.
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How Hacker News API works
Manually collecting data from Hacker News is slow, limited and hard to scale. That's why more and more teams choose our API.
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Install our Python SDK (or Node, Go, PHP, Ruby - pick your stack). Pulling Hacker News becomes a single function call per page. No proxy rotation, no headless Chrome to manage.
Pass any Hacker News URL to our endpoint along with your API key. We handle the page rendering and bot bypass, you receive parsed HTML or structured JSON.
When scraping Hacker News needs more, gain advanced parameters. render_js for JavaScript, stealth_proxy for CAPTCHAs, country_code for geo-targeting, ai_extract_rules for natural-language data extraction.
Hacker News Scraper API - Tuned for HN's Page Structure
Pull Hacker News pages at scale. Story title, URL, points, comment count, byline, and timestamp all parse in one call across the front page and topic feeds.
Use AI to scrape Hacker News for trending topics and insights, enabling you to stay informed about the latest discussions and developments in technology.
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Use our API to take screenshots of Hacker News pages, ensuring you capture the latest discussions and insights for your projects.
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Scrape Google search to extract relevant Hacker News discussion results directly from the SERPs, enabling you to stay updated on trending topics and insights.
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Utilize the JavaScript Scraping API to accurately execute complex interactions, enhancing the capture of dynamic data essential for strategic analysis on Hacker News.
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Scrape Hacker News to receive clean, structured data in LLM-ready format, enabling integration and analysis of trending discussions and insights from the platform.
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What Our Scraper Reads from Hacker News
Every Hacker News page returns story title, URL, points, comment count, submitter, timestamp, and the full discussion thread.
Setup in Under Five Minutes
Code samples in every major language: Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Go, cURL. Plus a request builder in the dashboard for testing without writing code.
DocumentationTurn Hacker News Pages Into Queryable Data
Pass any URL from Hacker News' article pages to our endpoint. Our renderer executes the page's JS and returns parsed data, extract_rules for CSS selectors, ai_extract_rules for AI-driven extraction.
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Our extensive knowledge base covers the most frequent use cases with code samples.
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ScrapingBee does not collect or store personal data from scraped sites unless their user explicitly requests it.
CAPTCHA bypass capacity
We handle proxy rotation to avoid IP-based blocking. With headless browser rendering, we mimic real user browsing behaviour and reduce the blocking risk.
Scalable
The platform scales smoothly with thousands of headless browsers and rotating proxies, ensuring fast, reliable performance even during traffic spikes.
Speed and accuracy
We deliver fast, reliable results in 1-5 seconds with high accuracy across most sites, even JavaScript-heavy ones.
Hacker News Scraper FAQs
Yes. Our dashboard request builder lets you paste a URL, set parameters, and copy the generated snippet in Python, Node, Go, PHP, Ruby, or cURL.