Hacker News scrapers compared
19 tools that scrape Hacker News, ranked by real usage over the last 30 days. Success rate is the share of public runs that finished successfully in the last 30 days. 100 people used one of these in the past month.
Most used: Hacker News Scraper (43 users in 30 days).
Most reliable with 100+ runs: Hacker News Scraper (100.0% of 764 runs succeeded).
Cheapest with at least 95% success: Hacker News Scraper ($0.20 per 1,000 results, list price).
| Tool | Users 30d | Success 30d | Runs 30d | Per 1k results | Per run | Rating | Last run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News Scraper gentle_cloud/hacker-news-scraper | 43 | 100.0% | 764 | $0.20 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Search — Stories, Comments & Developer Sentiment ryanclinton/hackernews-search | 30 | 100.0% | 264 | $5.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Who Is Hiring Scraper – Jobs, Salary & Email logiover/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper | 7 | 100.0% | 40 | $3.50 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Resume Scraper & Candidate Sourcing - Hacker News angaba92/hacker-news-who-wants-to-be-hired-scraper | 4 | 95.8% | 72 | $20.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Scraper automation-lab/hackernews-scraper | 3 | 100.0% | 133 | $1.15 | $0.001 | 5.0 (1) | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Search — Stories, Comments, Ask/Show HN alaudinburki/hacker-news-search | 1 | 100.0% | 21 | $0.50 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Comments & Who Is Hiring Jobs openharvest/hacker-news-scraper | 1 | — | 0 | $0.20 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Scraper - Who Is Hiring Jobs & Stories API teddythebuilder/hacker-news-scraper | 1 | — | 0 | $2.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Scraper sweet_rebel/hacker-news-scraper | 1 | 100.0% | 26 | $3.00 | — | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comments, Jobs & Users haketa/hackernews-scraper | 1 | — | 13 | $2.50 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Hacker News Scraper – Stories, Comments, Search & Who's Hiring gazidev/hacker-news-data | 1 | — | 13 | $0.20 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Monitor & Scraper brick_joey_yto/hackernews-monitor | 1 | — | 14 | $1.00 | — | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Hacker News Who Is Hiring Jobs, Every Month usta/hn-who-is-hiring-jobs | 1 | 100.0% | 21 | $4.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Scraper & Keyword Monitor (Stories + Comments) panda_studio/hacker-news-monitor | 1 | 100.0% | 20 | $1.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Emerging Launch Radar: GitHub Trending + Hacker News Momentum precious_bathmat/emerging-launch-radar | 1 | 100.0% | 25 | $10.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments & Users enezli/hacker-news-scraper | 1 | — | 15 | $2.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Tech News Monitor - Hacker News Brand & Keyword Tracker listless_adzuki/tech-news-monitor | 1 | — | 1 | $0.010 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-07 |
| Emerging Launch Radar: GitHub Trending + Hacker News Momentum scrapemint/emerging-launch-radar-pipeline | 1 | 100.0% | 28 | $60.00 | — | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Hacker News Stories Scraper — Comments & RAG JSON taroyamada/hacker-news-intelligence | 0 | 100.0% | 26 | $1.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
Success rate is shown only for tools with 20+ runs in 30 days; below 90% is highlighted. Prices are list prices for Apify's free plan (paid plans are cheaper). You are responsible for complying with Hacker News's terms and applicable law. How we measure.