HackerNews Extract

Extract a HackerNews post (article + comments) into single clean Markdown for quick reading or LLM input.

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Last updated: April 23, 2026

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HackerNews Extract

Extract a HackerNews post (article + comments) into single clean Markdown for quick reading or LLM input.

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What it does

Accepts an HackerNews id or url
Download the linked article HTML, cleans and formats it.
Fetches the Hacknews post metadata and comments.
Outputs a readable combined markdown file with original article, threaded comments, and key metadata.

Requirements

```
uv
```
installed and in PATH.

Install

No install beyond having

uv

. Dependencies will be installed automatically by

uv

into to a dedicated venv when run this script.

Usage Workflow (Mandatory for Agents)

When an agent is asked to extract a HackerNews post:

Run the script with an output path:

uv run --script ${baseDir}/hn-extract.py <input> -o /tmp/hn-<id>.md

Send ONE combined message: Upload the file and ask the question in the same tool call. Use the

message

tool (

action=send

filePath="/tmp/hn-<id>.md"

message="Extraction complete. Do you want me to summarize it?"

Do not output the full text or a summary directly in the chat unless specifically requested.

Usage

# run as uv script
uv run --script ${baseDir}/hn-extract.py <hn-id|hn-url|path/to/item.json> [-o path/to/output.md]
Examples
uv run --script ${baseDir}/hn-extract.py 46861313 -o /tmp/output.md
uv run --script ${baseDir}/hn-extract.py "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861313"

Omit
```
-o
```
to print to stdout.
Directories for
```
-o
```
are created automatically.

Notes

Retries are enabled for HTTP fetches.
Comments are indented by thread depth.
Sites requires authentication or blocks scraping may still fail.

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