Hacker News Deep Thread Analyzer

---
name: "Hacker News Deep Thread Analyzer"
slug: "hacker-news-deep-thread-analyzer"
description: "Scrapes and analyzes Hacker News threads using the official HN Firebase API and BeautifulSoup. Extracts sentiment trends, expertise signals, and generates structured summaries with key arguments mapped."
github_stars: 13014
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/HackerNews/API"
category: "Research & Scraping"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "HackerNews/API"
  github_stars: 13014
---

# Hacker News Deep Thread Analyzer

Scrapes and analyzes Hacker News threads using the official HN Firebase API and BeautifulSoup. Extracts sentiment trends, expertise signals, and generates structured summaries with key arguments mapped.

## Installation

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- For example, a story: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=pretty
- "text" : "Justin.tv is the biggest live video site online. We serve hundreds of thousands of video streams a day, and have supported up to 50k live concurrent viewers. Our site is growing every week, and we just added...
- For example: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/jl.json?print=pretty

- Source: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HackerNews/API/HEAD/README.md

## Source

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