Collect Hacker News Job Posts as Structured Data
Export the Hacker News jobs feed with titles, employers, links, authors, and timestamps for a lightweight technical hiring monitor.
The official Hacker News jobs feed is small, focused, and easy to automate. It is useful for watching startup hiring language and newly advertised technical roles, provided its limited market coverage is kept explicit.
Choose jobs in the Hacker News Scraper, set a result cap, and schedule a daily run. Dataset rows include the item ID, title, author, timestamp, external URL when supplied, and canonical HN URL.
Store first-seen and last-seen timestamps in your own table. Parse employer and role labels only into derived columns; keep the original title untouched. The feed can support discovery and trend notes, but it should not be presented as a complete labor-market sample.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the monthly Who Is Hiring thread?
No. The official jobs feed contains YC-related job items; discussion-thread comments are a different workflow.
Does every item include a company website?
No. Preserve null links and use the HN URL as the stable source reference.