Hacker News Story, Comment & Karma Scraper

Hacker News Story, Comment & Karma Scraper produces creator, page and audience lists: social profiles, channels, pages and the people who engage with them. Columns include name or title, company, role, link, score, author. Contact and quality columns: websites.

Useful for influencer and community outreach; these are profiles, not street addresses.

$0.99per 1,000 results, plus a start fee and platform usage
10columns in the output
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2026-10last updated on the Store
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The columns you get

  • Name or titletitle
  • Companycompany
  • Rolerole
  • Linkurl
  • Scorescore
  • Authorauthor
  • Num commentsnumComments
  • Created atcreatedAt
  • Domaindomain
  • Front page datefrontPageDate

From the published output schema, checked 2026-11-13.

What it costs

  • 100 rows in one run$0.50
  • 1,000 rows in one run$1.39
  • 10,000 rows in one run$10.30

Free-plan prices: $0.99 per 1,000 results plus a $0.40 start fee (4 GB run) per run, plus Apify platform usage at $0.20 per compute unit. The Free plan includes $5 a month (Apify pricing).

What you fill in

  • Mode (required)
  • Item ids
    Hacker News item IDs to look up, as numbers or numeric strings. Stories, comments, jobs, polls, and poll options are all accepted.
  • Usernames
    Hacker News usernames whose profiles and, optionally, submissions you want.
  • Search queries
    One or more keyword queries. Every query runs independently and the results are merged without duplicates. Leave empty to browse by tags, author, or story inst…
  • Search sort
  • Content types
  • Author
    Only return content written by this Hacker News username.
  • Story id
  • Exhaustive search
    Hacker News search exposes at most 1,000 hits per query. When enabled, the actor splits the requested date range into smaller windows so deeper result sets can…
  • Date range from

Other creator, page and audience lists

Questions

What does Hacker News Story, Comment & Karma Scraper cost?

$0.99 per 1,000 results on the Apify Store (Free plan), plus a start fee per GB of run memory and Apify platform usage: one run of 1,000 rows costs about $1.39 before platform usage. The Free plan includes $5 a month.

Do I need to code to use it?

No. You fill in a form on the Apify Store page, start the run and download the results as CSV, Excel or JSON. You need a free Apify account.

Is it a good fit for a business list?

Useful for influencer and community outreach; these are profiles, not street addresses.

Store data checked 2026-11-13Columns from the published schema