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# hackernews-scraper
# Hacker News Scraper — Stories, Comment Trees and Profiles in Python

[![release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/2scraper/hackernews-scraper?display_name=tag&sort=semver)](https://github.com/2scraper/hackernews-scraper/releases)
[![tests](https://github.com/2scraper/hackernews-scraper/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/2scraper/hackernews-scraper/actions/workflows/tests.yml)
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![engines](https://img.shields.io/badge/engines-Playwright%20%7C%20Selenium%20%7C%20Puppeteer%20%7C%20Scraper%20API-informational)
![no account](https://img.shields.io/badge/runs%20without%20an%20account-yes-brightgreen)

**Hacker News scraper** — an open-source (MIT) Python tool that reads news.ycombinator.com story lists, item pages and user profiles and writes stories, whole comment trees and profiles to JSON or CSV. Measured on 2026-09-30 from a datacentre VPS, it needed no key, no proxy and no account. Use it to build a dataset of stories and discussions, or compare two runs of the same feed with `diff_runs.py`.

Scrapes **news.ycombinator.com** — story lists, whole comment trees and
profiles — to JSON and CSV, with Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer (pyppeteer),
the 2Captcha Scraping Browser API over CDP, or the 2Captcha Scraper API with no
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docker run --rm -v "$PWD/out:/out" hackernews-scraper --feed show --pages 2 --out /out/show
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## Guides

- [How to run the 2scraper scrapers: setup, proxies, exit codes and access modes](https://2captcha.com/h/how-to-run-2scraper-open-source-scrapers) — installation, `.env`, `.meta.json` for the whole family.

## Related scrapers

Same CLI conventions, same output contract (one row per item, JSON or CSV, a `.meta.json` sidecar and shared exit codes):

- [Medium scraper](https://github.com/2scraper/medium-scraper) — Tag feeds, day archives, author pages and full story text…
- [Perplexity scraper](https://github.com/2scraper/perplexity-scraper) — Pages and Discover articles
- [Quora scraper](https://github.com/2scraper/quora-scraper) — Answers from question pages, topic feeds and profiles…
- [Goodreads scraper](https://github.com/2scraper/goodreads-scraper) — Lists, author books, search, full book pages and every…
- [Instagram scraper](https://github.com/2scraper/instagram-scraper) — Public profiles, posts and Reels, read logged out
- [Snapchat scraper](https://github.com/2scraper/snapchat-scraper) — Public Snapchat profiles, Spotlight engagement and story…

All scrapers: [github.com/2scraper](https://github.com/2scraper) · Need another site? [Open a request](https://github.com/2scraper/.github/issues/new?title=%5BScraper%20request%5D%20)

## Licence

MIT. See `LICENSE`. This reads **public pages only** and never logs in. See
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