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This is the machine-readable side of Hacker News, npm and PyPI signals for developer-tool teams: the columns its dataset contains, taken from a real sample run of 4 rows and 25 columns. Fill rate counts how many of the 4 sample rows have a value. Contact fields are withheld here.
| column | type | filled | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| source | text | 4/4 | hackernews |
| recordType | text | 4/4 | story |
| id | text | 4/4 | 50016426 |
| title | text | 4/4 | Show HN:APIFlow Studio – Open-source, offline-fi... |
| url | text | 4/4 | https://apiflowstudio.onrender.com/ |
| domain | text | 3/4 | apiflowstudio.onrender.com |
| createdAt | date/time (ISO) | 3/4 | 2026-10-09T05:40:43Z |
| points | integer | 3/4 | 3 |
| numComments | integer | 3/4 | 1 |
| hnUrl | text | 3/4 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016426 |
| kind | text | 3/4 | showHn |
| query | text | 4/4 | apify |
| queryType | text | 4/4 | keyword |
| packageName | text | 1/4 | crawlee |
| latestVersion | text | 1/4 | 3.18.2 |
| description | text | 1/4 | The scalable web crawling and scraping library f... |
| license | text | 1/4 | Apache-2.0 |
| homepage | text | 1/4 | https://crawlee.dev |
| repositoryUrl | text | 1/4 | https://github.com/apify/crawlee |
| keywords | list (JSON array) | 1/4 | ["apify", "headless", "chrome", "puppeteer", "cr... |
| downloadsLastDay | integer | 1/4 | 35433 |
| downloadsLastWeek | integer | 1/4 | 167620 |
| downloadsLastMonth | integer | 1/4 | 708825 |
| found | boolean | 4/4 | True |
| matchedQueries | list (JSON array) | 3/4 | ["apify"] |
| source | recordType | id | title | url | domain | createdAt | points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hackernews | story | 50016426 | Show HN:APIFlow Studio – Open-source, offline-first Postman ... | https://apiflowstudio.onrender.com/ | apiflowstudio.onrender.com | 2026-10-09T05:40:43Z | 3 |
| hackernews | story | 49917863 | Show HN: Vietnam Tender Intelligence – gov procurement data,... | https://apify.com/donerightlabs/tender-intelligence | apify.com | 2026-10-01T04:50:24Z | 2 |
| hackernews | story | 49800300 | I built 13 small Apify Actors this month, mostly AI-grounded | https://apify.com/rumi7911 | apify.com | 2026-09-22T12:41:09Z | 1 |
| npm | package | npm:crawlee | crawlee | https://www.npmjs.com/package/crawlee |
Download the full sample CSV (raw file on GitHub). Long values are shortened above.
From the actor's current input schema on Apify.
| field | type | label | default |
|---|---|---|---|
| modes | array | Modes to run | ["hnSearch", "npmPackages"] |
| hnKeywords | array | Hacker News keywords | |
| npmPackages | array | npm packages | |
| pypiPackages | array | PyPI packages | |
| sinceDate | string | Since | "90 days" |
| dateFrom | string | Posted from (date) | |
| dateTo | string | Posted to (date) | |
| maxItemsPerQuery | integer | Max items per query | 50 |
| hnDomains | array | Hacker News domains | |
| hnIncludeComments | boolean | Include comments that mention keywords | false |
| hnSort | string | Sort order | "date" |
| hnMinPoints | integer | Minimum points | 0 |
| minPoints | integer | Minimum points | 0 |
| minComments | integer | Minimum comments | 0 |
| author | string | Author (HN username) | |
| includeAuthorKarma | boolean | Add author karma | true |
| showHnKind | string | Launch type (showHn mode) | "both" |
| timeBudgetSecs | integer | Time budget (seconds) | 300 |
$0.001 per hacker news item (pay per event). Read from the Apify actor record on 2026-10-14; the live price on the actor page always wins.
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