hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper

v1.0.0

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16 days ago

Hacker News Who Is Hiring Scraper — free API client for the Apify platform. No API key setup, thousands of structured results, export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

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Hacker News Who Is Hiring Scraper

Hacker News Who Is Hiring Scraper — a Node.js client for the Apify Actor. Pull Hacker News Who Is Hiring data at scale with no API-key hassle: thousands of clean, structured results you can export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

▶️ Run it on Apify: https://apify.com/logiover/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper

Install

npm install hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper

Usage

const scrape = require("hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Get your free Apify token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input

| Field | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | mode | string | Mode | | months | integer | Number of Months | | threadIds | array | Thread IDs | | searchQuery | string | Search Query | | filterKeywords | array | Filter Keywords (include) | | excludeKeywords | array | Exclude Keywords | | remoteOnly | boolean | Remote Only | | maxResults | integer | Max Results |

All fields optional — run with empty input {} for a broad default result set.

Output

Each result item includes fields such as: company, role, location, remote, salary, techStack, threadMonth, author, hnUrl, commentId, threadId, threadTitle, visa, applyUrl, email, fullText, postedAt, scrapedAt.

Why use this

⚡ Thousands of results per run, auto-paginated
🔑 No Hacker News Who Is Hiring login or reverse-engineering — just call the Actor
📦 Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL, XML
☁️ Runs on Apify cloud — schedule it, add webhooks, wire into Make / Zapier / n8n

FAQ

Do I need an API key?

Only a free Apify token (grab one at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations). No Hacker News Who Is Hiring login and no scraping setup on your side.

How many results can I get?

Thousands per run. Raise the limit in the input to pull more — the Actor paginates for you.

What export formats are supported?

Results are plain JSON in code; from the Apify dataset you can export CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL or XML.

Is this an official Hacker News Who Is Hiring API?

No. It is an unofficial Hacker News Who Is Hiring data client on the Apify platform — a maintained alternative when there is no official or affordable API.