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Hacker News Scraper API

Search Hacker News stories and fetch individual items as structured JSON. Built for trend tracking, technical research, and content monitoring.

API Endpoints

Available endpoints for the Hacker News Scraper API

POST /v1/hacker-news/item

Hacker News Item API

Fetch a public Hacker News item by URL or item id.

Parameters

id string Hacker News item id.
url string Hacker News item URL.
POST /v1/hacker-news/search

Hacker News API

Search Hacker News stories through public Algolia data with page pagination.

Parameters

cursor string Cursor returned as next_cursor from the previous response.
limit integer Maximum number of results to return.
page integer Page number for sources that support page-based pagination.
query string required Search query.

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