logiover/hacker-news-search-scraper-sample-data

Hacker News Search Scraper

Scrape Hacker News stories, comments and polls at scale via the Algolia API — title, author, URL, text, points, comment count and tags. Search by keyword, filter by points, thousands per run. Schedule it for a continuous HN feed.

What the actor scrapes

🟠 Hacker News Search Scraper — Scrape HN Stories & Comments at Scale Scrape Hacker News stories, comments and polls at scale through the official HN Algolia search API. This Hacker News scraper extracts title, author, URL, text, points, comment count, tags and created date — searchable by keyword and filterable by points. No login, no API key, no blocking. Thanks to date-windowed pagination it goes beyond Algolia's 1,000-result cap, returning thousands of items per run as JSON, CSV

Who this is for

This sample is useful for anyone working in social media, news, developer tools who wants a quick look at the shape of the data before running the live actor at scale. Treat it as a static snapshot — counts, prices and timestamps reflect the moment the sample was captured and will drift over time.

Source

Live source: This dataset is a static sample. For fresh, customizable extractions, run the live Apify actor: logiover/hacker-news-search-scraper

Fields

• objectId — identifier
• type — field captured by the actor
• title — item or page title
• author — author or creator handle
• url — canonical URL of the item
• text — field captured by the actor
• points — field captured by the actor
• numComments — comment count
• tags — associated tags
• createdAt — creation timestamp
• hnUrl — URL reference
• scrapedAt — timestamp the row was scraped

Sample preview

[
  {
    "objectId": "48140880",
    "type": "story",
    "title": "Ontario staff used unsafe AI websites [pdf]",
    "author": "logickkk1",
    "url": "https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/specialreports/specialreports/en26/2026_AI_EN.pdf",
    "text": null,
    "points": 1,
    "numComments": 0,
    "tags": [
      "story",
      "author_logickkk1",
      "story_48140880"
    ],
    "createdAt": "2026-05-14T20:35:29Z",
    "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140880",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T20:38:32.857Z"
  },
  {
    "objectId": "48140747",
    "type": "story",
    "title": "OpenAI's Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app",
    "author": "SpyCoder77",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930763/openai-codex-chatgpt-ios-android-app-preview",
    "text": null,
    "points": 1,
    "numComments": 0,
    "tags": [
      "story",
      "author_SpyCoder77",
      "story_48140747"
    ],
    "createdAt": "2026-05-14T20:25:01Z",
    "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140747",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T20:38:32.932Z"
  }
]

Snapshot stats

• Row count in this sample: 50
• Data quality flag at capture time: EXISTING_USED

License & Attribution

Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). If you use this data, please credit the source actor and link back to its Apify Store page: logiover/hacker-news-search-scraper.

The sample is provided as-is for evaluation and research. Source websites retain their own terms of service — downstream users are responsible for complying with them when running the live actor or redistributing scraped content.