Hacker News stories, search, threads, users, domain stats and trending topics.
payments ON MAINNET (real money) · 7 live endpoints
| Endpoint | Price | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
GET /hn-domain-stats | $0.02 | Hacker News stories linking to a domain in a date window: count, total points and comments, and the top stories. |
GET /hn-front-page-date | $0.03 | Best-scored Hacker News stories submitted on a UTC date (past front pages are not archived), flagged if still on the front page. |
GET /hn-item | $0.02 | Summarise a Hacker News item and its comment tree: comment count, depth, authors and top comments, truncated. |
GET /hn-search | $0.02 | Search Hacker News stories or comments by query with optional date range, sorted by relevance or date. |
GET /hn-top | $0.02 | Current Hacker News top, new, best, ask or show stories with score, comment count, domain and age (up to 15). |
GET /hn-trending-topics | $0.03 | Trending keywords across current Hacker News stories: terms ranked by how many titles use them, with example titles. |
GET /hn-user | $0.03 | Hacker News user profile: karma, account age, submission count and recent story/comment activity with top story. |
GET /catalog returns this list as JSON. Activity hub · uptime.
Data comes from the public Hacker News Firebase and Algolia HN Search APIs, provided as is. Scores, ranks and counts change constantly; search can miss items; story text belongs to its authors. Not affiliated with Y Combinator. Not financial or investment advice. Every paid response carries a disclaimer field.