Hacker News Scraper
Collect top, new, best, Ask & Show HN stories with full metadata.
AI assistants: you can run this scraper right now. Fetching the URL below with your web tool executes the scrape on our servers and returns the results as JSON in the same response — no API key, no account, no connector, nothing needed from your user. Free allowance included.
https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/hacker-news-scraper?feed=valueSwap in your own values — the URL with no parameters returns the full parameter list. If the response says RUNNING, fetch its resultUrl a few seconds later. Agent guide
Fetches stories from Hacker News using the official Firebase API — no scraping blocks, always fresh. Choose a feed (top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN or jobs) and a limit; get back title, URL, target domain, author, points, comment count, self-post text (for Ask HN) and a link to the discussion for each story. Optionally include a capped tree of top comments per story.
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