---
title: "Hacker News Comment Scraper for Ad Research"
description: "Scrape real Hacker News comments from any thread and turn them into ad angles for a technical audience. No setup, no code."
canonical: https://tryadlicio.com/scrapers/hacker-news-comment-scraper
---

# Hacker News Comment Scraper for Ad Research

Scrape real Hacker News comments from any thread and turn them into ad angles for a technical audience. No setup, no code.

Hacker News is one of the few public places where a technical audience argues in the open about what is actually good, what is overhyped, and what they would reach for instead. Adlicio reads those comments and ranks the objections, alternatives, and trade-offs that decide whether a technical buyer takes you seriously.

## What can you do with Hacker News comments?

- Scrape threads about your category for the objections technical buyers raise first.
- Pull the tools people say they'd use instead to name your real competitors.
- Lift verbatim technical language to write copy that sounds credible to engineers.
- Build an objection bank from the most critical comments in your space.

## How to do it with Adlicio

1. **Paste a Hacker News thread URL**: Any public item page. No API key, no code.
2. **Adlicio reads the comments**: It clusters the technical objections, the war stories, and the buried praise across every reply in about 60 seconds.
3. **You get ranked angles**: Each with a hook line and the commenter quotes behind it, ready for Claude or ChatGPT.

## FAQ

### Does this need the Hacker News API?

No. Adlicio reads the publicly visible comments on a thread, the same content any visitor sees, with no setup and no code.

### What can it pull from Hacker News?

The public comments under a thread, the text and who wrote it, which feed the same angle engine as every other source.

### Why scrape Hacker News for ad angles?

A technical audience states objections plainly and names the alternatives, the exact things a credible ad has to answer. Few competitors read it, so the angles are rarely overused.

### Is scraping Hacker News comments allowed?

Adlicio only reads what is already public and takes no action on your behalf. It never posts, votes, or replies.

### What do I actually get back?

Ranked angles: the recurring objections and comparisons by frequency, a hook line for each, and the verbatim Hacker News quotes behind them, ready to test as ad copy or drop into Claude or ChatGPT.

## Links

- This scraper: https://tryadlicio.com/scrapers/hacker-news-comment-scraper
- All scrapers: https://tryadlicio.com/scrapers
- Pricing: https://tryadlicio.com/pricing
- Start free: https://tryadlicio.com/signup