Hacker News Historical Archive Scraper — Old Stories by Date
Bulk-export the entire Hacker News archive between any two dates in chronological order. Stories, comments, Ask/Show HN, polls and jobs since 2006 via the keyless Algolia HN API. Time-windowed firehose yields hundreds of thousands of rows. No API key, no login.
Charged only on successful results.
Clean schema, ready for ETL.
2 users total
No setup — runs in the cloud on Apify.
What it returns
Bulk-export the entire Hacker News archive between any two dates in chronological order. Stories, comments, Ask/Show HN, polls and jobs since 2006 via the keyless Algolia HN API.
How to run it
- Open the actor on Apify (button above).
- Fill the input schema — most fields have sensible defaults.
- Click Run. Results land in the dataset within minutes.
- Export as JSON or CSV, or pull via the dataset API.
Guides for this scraper
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