How to Scrape Hacker News Who Is Hiring — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Hacker News Who Is Hiring data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Hacker News Who Is Hiring Scraper, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Hacker News Who Is Hiring login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

company
role
location
remote
salary
techStack
threadMonth
author
hnUrl
commentId
threadId
threadTitle
visa
applyUrl

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper

const scrape = require("hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install hacker-news-who-is-hiring-scraper

from hacker_news_who_is_hiring_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`mode`	string	Mode
`months`	integer	Number of Months
`threadIds`	array	Thread IDs
`searchQuery`	string	Search Query
`filterKeywords`	array	Filter Keywords (include)
`excludeKeywords`	array	Exclude Keywords
`remoteOnly`	boolean	Remote Only
`maxResults`	integer	Max Results

Common use cases

Build a fresh Hacker News Who Is Hiring dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Hacker News Who Is Hiring records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Hacker News Who Is Hiring data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.