Hacker News Scraper

Scrape Hacker News using an Apify Actor via the REST API.

Actor ID

0UDODOnpTkxY3Oc90

Prerequisites

• APIFY_TOKEN environment variable must be set
• curl and jq must be available

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm parameters with user

Ask what they want to scrape. Supported input fields:

• searchTerms (array of strings) - keywords to search
• maxResults (integer) - max stories to return
• sortBy (string) - "points", "date", or "relevance"
• includeComments (boolean) - include comment threads