hacker-news-scraper

You can search Hacker News stories and comments without an API key by querying the public Algolia API. This skill handles requests, pagination, and normalizes results into a consistent schema for easy downstream analytics.

To monitor Hacker News mentions within a date range, query stories, comments, show_hn, and ask_hn via the Algolia API. You can apply client-side keyword filters to locate specific discussions and track tech trend insights.

This Hacker News scraper requires no authentication. It operates using Python 3 and depends solely on the requests library to query the Algolia API and retrieve normalized discussion data.

Yes, you can retrieve Show HN and Ask HN posts using the Algolia API. The skill targets these specific post types alongside general stories and comments, normalizing the retrieved items for competitive intelligence and content discovery.

To normalize Hacker News API results for downstream processing, the skill queries the Algolia API and maps the returned items to a consistent schema. This handles pagination automatically and supports applying client-side keyword filters.

When using Algolia to query Hacker News data, you are limited to searching existing stories, comments, show_hn, and ask_hn items within a specified date window. Client-side keyword filtering is applied after retrieval to refine the normalized results.