Pre-Filled Template
Hacker News Job Listing Scraper and Parser.json
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"content": "## Go to https://hn.algolia.com\n- filter by \"Ask HN: Who is hiring?\" (important with quotes for full match)\n- sort by date\n- Chrome Network Tab > find API call > click \"Copy as cURL\"\n- n8n HTTP node -> import cURL and paste \n- I've set the API key as Header Auth so you will have to do the above yourself to make this work"
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"content": "## Go to HN API \nhttps://github.com/HackerNews/API\n\nWe'll need following endpoints: \n- For example, a story: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=pretty\n- comment: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/2921983.json?print=pretty\n\n"
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"content": "## Data Structure\n\nWe use Openai GPT-4o-mini to transform the raw data in a unified data structure. Feel free to change this.\n\n```json\n{\n \"company\": \"Name of the hiring company\",\n \"title\": \"Job title/role being advertised\",\n \"location\": \"Work location including remote/hybrid status\",\n \"type\": \"Employment type (Full-time, Contract, etc)\",\n \"salary\": \"Compensation details if provided\",\n \"description\": \"Main job description text including requirements and team info\",\n \"apply_url\": \"Direct application/job posting URL\",\n \"company_url\": \"Company website or careers page\"\n}\n```"
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"content": "## Clean the result \n\n```json\n{\n\"title\": \"Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)\",\n\"createdAt\": \"2025-02-03T16:00:43Z\",\n\"updatedAt\": \"2025-02-17T08:35:44Z\",\n\"storyId\": \"42919502\"\n},\n{\n\"title\": \"Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)\",\n\"createdAt\": \"2025-01-02T16:00:09Z\",\n\"updatedAt\": \"2025-02-13T00:03:24Z\",\n\"storyId\": \"42575537\"\n},\n```"
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"content": "## Hacker News - Who is Hiring Scrape\n\nIn this template we setup a scraper for the monthly HN Who is Hiring post. This way we can scrape the data and transform it to a common data strcutre.\n\nFirst we use the [Algolia Search](https://hn.algolia.com/) provided by hackernews to drill down the results.\n\nWe can use the official [Hacker News API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API\n) to get the post data and also all the replies!\n\nThis will obviously work for any kind of post on hacker news! Get creative \ud83d\ude03\n\nAll you need is an Openai Account to structure the text data and an Airtable Account (or similar) to write the results to a list.\n\nCopy my base https://airtable.com/appM2JWvA5AstsGdn/shrAuo78cJt5C2laR"
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