Hacker News "Who is Hiring" Jobs Scraper

Jobs & Hiring

Operated by Sourcelane✓ verified

A Hacker News "Who is hiring?" jobs scraper that extracts every top-level job posting from the monthly HN thread and converts postings into structured records. It parses the conventional first-line format to extract company and role, detects location and a remote indicator from the post body, extracts salary and apply information from pipe-separated content, collects every link and email mentioned, and retains full plain-text and original HTML of each posting along with identifiers to link back to the original comment, author and timestamp. The connector auto-detects the latest monthly thread or can target a specific historical thread, and supports filters for keyword matching, remote-only selection, and limiting the number of postings processed.

Verified Sep 28, 12:10 AM

$0.002

per job

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Job search aggregation for startup roles from Hacker News monthly threads
Recruiter sourcing to find companies hiring for specific technologies or stacks
Lead generation by capturing careers pages and recruiter contact emails
Remote job hunting via remote-only filtering of postings
Hiring trend analysis (month-over-month tracking by city, technology, or salary range)

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
24h	—	—	—	—
7d	—	—	—	—
30d	—	—	—	—

Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"hn-who-is-hiring-scraper","params":{"storyId":"","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`storyId`	string	optional	Specific Hacker News story ID to scrape (e.g. 47975571). Leave empty to auto-detect the most recent 'Ask HN: Who is hiring?' monthly thread.
`maxItems`	integer	optional	Maximum number of job comments to return. 0 = all available. Capped at 100 per call.
`remoteOnly`	boolean	optional	Only return job posts that mention REMOTE.
`keyword`	string	optional	Optional case-insensitive substring filter on the comment body (e.g. 'Rust', 'Python', 'Berlin'). Leave empty for no filter.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`commentId`	integer	Comment Id
`storyId`	integer	Story Id
`storyTitle`	string	Story Title
`author`	string	Author
`createdAt`	string	Created At
`createdAtUnix`	integer	Created At Unix
`text`	string	Text
`textHtml`	string	Text Html
`commentUrl`	string	Comment Url
`firstLine`	string	First Line
`isRemote`	boolean	Is Remote
`isHiring`	boolean	Is Hiring
`urls`	array	—
`emails`	array	—
`pipeParts`	array	—

Use Hacker News "Who is Hiring" Jobs Scraper from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Which Series A fintechs are hiring backend engineers in London right now?”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://sourcelane-amber.vercel.app/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"hn-who-is-hiring-scraper","params":{"storyId":"","maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "hn-who-is-hiring-scraper",
        "params": {"storyId":"","maxItems":5},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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