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Hacker News API

Hacker News data through one normalized API - per-request USD pricing, no subscriptions, and automatic failover on redundant endpoints.

Endpoints4Providers3From · search$1.50/1k req · HedgehogFull breakdownRead docs
Uptime
100.00%
30d · 2,301 calls
Requests
2,303
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
0.5s
median · 30d
POST

Search

Most used
/v1/run/hackernews.searchhackernews.search
Search Hacker News by keyword - matching stories with title, link, author, points, and comment count as clean JSON.
2,130 /mo
▲197.9%
100.00%
458ms p50
2
from$1.50/1k req
Hedgehog
POST

Story comments

/v1/run/hackernews.story_commentshackernews.story_comments
List the comments on a Hacker News story by id - text, author, and timestamp as clean JSON.
156 /mo
▲5066.7%
100.00%
529ms p50
2
from$1.50/1k req
Hedgehog
POST

Profile

/v1/run/hackernews.profilehackernews.profile
Get a Hacker News user's public profile by username - karma, bio, and account details as clean JSON.
11 /mo
▲1000%
100.00%
265ms p50
2
from$1.50/1k req
Raccoon
POST

Story

/v1/run/hackernews.storyhackernews.story
Get a Hacker News story by id - title, link, author, points, and comment count as clean JSON.
6 /mo
▲100%
100.00%
207ms p50
2
from$1.50/1k req
Raccoon

About the Hacker News API

Every provider prices each endpoint independently, so the table shows the cheapest per endpoint. Open one to compare all providers.

Measured performance

What the Hacker News API actually does

Every call through AnyAPI over the last 30 days, counted here rather than promised.

100.0%
of calls succeeded (2,301 calls)
Succeeded on first lane 100.0%
Response time estimate (2,301 calls across endpoints)
Weighted p50 estimate
0.5s
Request-weighted average of endpoint p50 values, not a combined request percentile
Weighted p99 estimate
5.3s
Request-weighted average of endpoint p99 values, not a combined request percentile

FAQ

About the Hacker News API

The AnyAPI Hacker News API returns Hacker News data as normalized JSON across 4 endpoints: profile, search, story, and story comments. You call one endpoint per job with a single key, and AnyAPI routes each request across 3 sources, falling back automatically when one fails. Pricing is in US dollars, from $1.50 per 1,000 requests on the cheapest endpoint, with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Hacker News calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a request-weighted median response time of 0.5 seconds across 2,301 measured calls.

Pricing is in US dollars, from $1.50 per 1,000 requests on the cheapest endpoint, with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet and each call draws it down. Some failed wallet-funded requests incur processing charges that we pass through at cost, with no markup; the error response shows the amount charged.

4 endpoints: profile, search, story, and story comments. Every one takes the same authentication and returns the same normalized response shape, so reaching a second Hacker News endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Hacker News calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a request-weighted median response time of 0.5 seconds across 2,301 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.