Hacker News Scraper

Extract top stories, comments, scores, and user data from Hacker News. Built on spider-browser .

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target
news.ycombinator.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

hackernews-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://news.ycombinator.com/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const stories = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".athing").forEach(el => {
    const rank = el.querySelector(".rank")?.textContent?.trim();
    const title = el.querySelector(".titleline a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const url = el.querySelector(".titleline a")?.getAttribute("href");
    const subtext = el.nextElementSibling;
    const score = subtext?.querySelector(".score")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = subtext?.querySelector(".hnuser")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) stories.push({ rank, title, url, score, author });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: stories.length, stories: stories.slice(0, 30) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for news.ycombinator.com.

Structured JSON from news.ycombinator.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/news.ycombinator.com/

TitleURLScoreAuthorComment countPosted time

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/news.ycombinator.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/news.ycombinator.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/news.ycombinator.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

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