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# Is there a Hacker News scraper API?

Yes. Social Fetch provides search, ranked feeds, story and polymorphic item lookup, comment-tree paging, comment ancestor context, user profile plus submissions/comments/favorites, Who is Hiring parsing, and updates/maxitem freshness polls under `/v1/hackernews`. Authenticate with a Social Fetch API key in the `x-api-key` header.

Source: [Hacker News data API](https://www.socialfetch.dev/platforms/hackernews)

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