Fetch and extract structured Hacker News post data via Algolia search.
npx skills add https://github.com/dbx0/agents-hackaton --skill hn-algolia-reader
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: hn-algolia-reader Source: https://github.com/dbx0/agents-hackaton/tree/main/.claude/skills/hn-algolia-reader Command: npx skills add https://github.com/dbx0/agents-hackaton --skill hn-algolia-reader
Hacker News research and content curation often require manually scanning the site for top posts. This skill automates fetching top posts via the Algolia-powered Hacker News search interface and returns structured data including titles, points, comments, and URLs.
Fetch the top Hacker News posts for a specified date range and type, and return a structured list including titles, URLs, points, and comments.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
To extract structured data from top Hacker News posts, you can use an automated scraping approach via the Algolia search interface. This method captures titles, URLs, points, comments, and discussion links based on configurable date ranges and post types.
The best way to scrape Hacker News Launch HN posts for trend analysis is querying the Algolia search interface with post type filters. It automatically falls back to a past week date range if the initial 24-hour query yields no results.
Yes, you can filter Hacker News web scraping by post type and date range. This technique allows you to specifically target stories, Show HN, Ask HN, or Launch HN posts within a defined timeframe to retrieve relevant structured data.
To get the standard Hacker News discussion URL when extracting post data, the workflow parses the Algolia search results and constructs the standard HN discussion URL format alongside the title, points, and comments.
Your Hacker News data extraction might return no Launch HN results because there were no posts in the initial date range. The scraping workflow applies a fallback mechanism to automatically expand the search to the past week for broader coverage.
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