HackerNews Extract

Extract a HackerNews post (article + comments) into single clean Markdown for quick reading or LLM input.

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What it does

• Accepts an HackerNews id or url
• Download the linked article HTML, cleans and formats it.
• Fetches the Hacknews post metadata and comments.
• Outputs a readable combined markdown file with original article, threaded comments, and key metadata.

Requirements

• uv installed and in PATH.

Install