SEARCH, NEWS & MEDIA
Extract Hacker News Data
Full-text search over every Hacker News story and comment.
Ask AuraCrawl for what you need from Hacker News — "every story matching this query with points, author, and comment count," ranked by relevance or by date. We call the open Algolia HN API and page it to the tail.
What a response looks like
REQUEST
ask“Tell AuraCrawl what you need from Hacker News in plain language — which entities, which fields, how often. That sentence is the spec.”
{
"object_id": "41234567",
"title": "Show HN: I built a search engine for podcasts",
"url": "https://example.com/podcast-search",
"author": "pg",
"points": 412,
"num_comments": 137,
"created_at": "2026-09-01T14:22:00Z",
"tags": [
"story",
"show_hn"
]
}What you can extract
- Story title, URL, and author
- Points and comment count
- Creation timestamp
- Tags (story / comment / show_hn / ask_hn)
- Relevance or date-sorted result sets
- Full pagination across all pages
PIPELINE The hn.algolia.com API is fully open — an Open-tier target that pages cleanly with a filterable tag facet.
Request Hacker News data.
Describe the fields, the volume, and the cadence. We scope the extraction and deliver a sample before you commit.