Export Hacker News stories to Excel in seconds. Works on the front page, newest, Ask HN, Show HN and search results — no coding, no API keys.
Add to Chrome - It's FreeThe Hacker News Scraper by No Code Web Scraper turns Hacker News pages into clean spreadsheets. Open the front page, newest, Ask HN, Show HN and search results, click the list once, and every story — with title, story url, hn link and more — lands in Excel or CSV. No code, no API keys, and your data never leaves the browser.
Every visible Hacker News field, one column each — captured exactly as shown on the page.
Go to the front page — or any Hacker News page with a list of stories — in Chrome.
Open No Code Web Scraper from the side panel, hover the list and click — every story on the page is detected with all its fields automatically.
Run the extraction (current page, auto-scroll or pagination) and download every story as a clean spreadsheet.
Track what the HN audience upvotes in your space.
Find headline formats that work.
Monitor Show HN launches.
Build tech discourse datasets.
Archive threads on topics you follow.
Scraping publicly visible data for personal analysis is generally lawful in the US and EU. The extension only reads what your own browser already displays — nothing is bypassed and no data leaves your machine.
Install the free Chrome extension, open Hacker News, and click the list you want. Fields are detected automatically and you export to Excel or CSV — no code, no selectors, no API.
Excel (.xlsx), CSV and JSON — ready for spreadsheets, CRMs or scripts.
No API keys and no signup. The extension works on the pages your browser can open, exactly as you see them.
Yes. Every HN list page — front, newest, ask, show, past days — exports titles, points, comments and links.
Yes. The same extension scrapes any site — Hacker News today, Google Maps, Amazon or your niche directory tomorrow. One tool for every list on the web.