Table: hackernews_job - Query Hacker News Jobs using SQL

Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In particular, the 'Jobs' section on Hacker News is a common go-to for tech professionals and startups to post and find job listings.

Table Usage Guide

The hackernews_job table provides insights into job postings on Hacker News. As a job seeker or recruiter, explore job-specific details through this table, including job titles, company names, and URLs. Utilize it to uncover information about the job market in the tech industry, such as trending job roles, popular companies hiring, and the nature of job descriptions.

Examples

Job stories by score

Discover the job postings on Hacker News that have received the highest scores. This can be beneficial for understanding which job listings are most popular or garner the most attention.

select
  *
from
  hackernews_job
order by
  score desc;

select
  *
from
  hackernews_job
order by
  score desc;

Job stories with most comments

Explore which job stories on HackerNews are generating the most discussion, helping you to identify popular topics and trends within the tech job market.

select
  *
from
  hackernews_job
order by
  descendants desc;

select
  *
from
  hackernews_job
order by
  descendants desc;

Query examples

Schema for hackernews_job

Name	Type	Operators	Description
_ctx	jsonb		Steampipe context in JSON form, e.g. connection_name.
by	text		The username of the item's author.
dead	boolean		True if the item is dead.
deleted	boolean		True if the item is deleted.
descendants	bigint		In the case of stories or polls, the total comment count.
id	bigint	=	The item's unique id.
kids	jsonb		The ids of the item's comments, in ranked display order.
parent	bigint		The comment's parent: either another comment or the relevant story.
parts	jsonb		A list of related pollopts, in display order.
poll	bigint		The pollopt's associated poll.
score	bigint		The story's score, or the votes for a pollopt.
text	text		The comment, story or poll text. HTML.
time	timestamp with time zone		Timestamp when the item was created.
title	text		The title of the story, poll or job. HTML.
type	text		The type of item. One of "job", "story", "comment", "poll", or "pollopt".
url	text		The URL of the story.

Export

This table is available as a standalone Exporter CLI. Steampipe exporters are stand-alone binaries that allow you to extract data using Steampipe plugins without a database.

You can download the tarball for your platform from the Releases page, but it is simplest to install them with the steampipe_export_installer.sh script:

/bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://steampipe.io/install/export.sh)" -- hackernews

You can pass the configuration to the command with the --config argument:

steampipe_export_hackernews --config '<your_config>' hackernews_job