I wanted to do an analysis of hacker news on another topic, but over a longer timespan.

I started to look into it, but in the little time I had to devote to the idea, I read that the Agolia API lets you look over a longer period, but that it is relatively costly.

I just want to look for all story titles from the beginning of time which match one of several simple search terms, and return submission date and title for an analysis I'd conduct in R.

Am I overthinking it and a simple Python script without an API code can do it?