Data feed · Apify actor
Hacker News stories, comments and jobs feed
Hacker News stories, comments and the monthly "Who is hiring" jobs threads, via the official HN and Algolia APIs. Runs on Apify; you pay per result, with no subscription to Rowsift.
Source: official Hacker News Firebase API and HN Algolia search · Pay per result on Apify
Opens the actor on Apify. Pay per result; no Rowsift account needed. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit.
What you get
Each row in the full feed has these fields:
- kind
- story, comment or job
- title
- Story title
- author
- HN username
- points
- Points
- numComments
- Comment count
- createdAt
- Posted time
- link
- Linked URL
- url
- Link to the HN item
Real sample output
| Kind | Title | Author | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| story | HackerNews API: What if HN does not have API? Make API on the fly with APIfy | sathish316 | 132 | 49 |
| story | Show HN: Apify SDK – A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript | jancurn | 78 | 8 |
| story | Show HN: Apify – Turn any website into an API | jancurn | 45 | 21 |
From a real test run of the actor. Full records have more fields.
Example input
{"mode":"search","queries":["apify"],"maxItems":20}Who it's for
- Developer marketers tracking launches and mentions
- Recruiters and job seekers mining Who is hiring
- Researchers
What it costs
At $0.30 per 1,000 results, 1,000 results cost about $0.30 plus $0.003 per run. Price set by Apify, checked 31 Oct 2026; Apify's own platform usage may apply.
See pricing on Apify (opens Apify)Questions about this feed
Do I need an API key?
No. The feed uses public endpoints.
What formats can I export?
JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS or HTML from the Apify dataset, plus the Apify API and integrations with Google Sheets, Zapier, Make and n8n.
How much does it cost?
$0.30 per 1,000 results ($0.0003 each) plus $0.003 per run, as listed on the Apify actor page (checked 31 Oct 2026). Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, so a small test run costs nothing.
Where does the data come from?
From the official Hacker News Firebase API and HN Algolia search. The feed only collects publicly available data.
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Get this every week, without the copy-paste
Schedule the Hacker News feed and get fresh rows as CSV, Excel or JSON.
- Same columns every run
- Schedule it on Apify
- Pay per result, no Rowsift account
Opens the actor on Apify. Pay per result; no Rowsift account needed. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit.