Hacker News API

Hacker News Story API

Get a Hacker News story by id - title, link, author, points, and comment count as clean JSON.

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$1.50/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.

What the API returned
{
"id": "45389217",
"title": "Why we rewrote our build system in Rust",
"url": "https://blog.tacitlabs.dev/rust-build-system",
"author": "kvasir_dev",
"points": 482,
"comments": 214,
"createdUtc": 1758978420,
"permalink": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389217"
}
Uptime
100.00%
30d · 6 calls
Requests
6
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
0.2s
median · 30d

Pricing and providers

Hacker News Story API pricing: one API, 2 interchangeable providers

The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.

You pay
$15.00
$1.50/1k req, only for what you use. No monthly plan.
Your first 66 requests are free with the $0.10 starting balance.

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{
  "found": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "45389217",
    "title": "Why we rewrote our build system in Rust",
    "url": "https://blog.tacitlabs.dev/rust-build-system",
    "author": "kvasir_dev",
    "points": 482,
    "comments": 214,
    "createdUtc": 1758978420,
    "permalink": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389217"
  }
}

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One request, one response shape.

Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.

Last verified 2026-10-31 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

Request body

JSON, posted to this endpoint.

  • idstring

    45389217

    Hacker News story id, e.g. "47340079".

You send. A small JSON body. The values shown are examples to replace with your own.

Response

JSON, one example value per field.

datadata

Story payload, or null when the id did not resolve.

  • authorstring

    kvasir_dev

    Submitting user's username. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • commentsinteger

    214

    Number of comments on the story.

  • createdUtcnumber

    1758978420

    UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • idstring

    45389217

    Hacker News item ID of the story.

  • permalinkstring

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389217

    Permalink to the item on news.ycombinator.com.

  • pointsinteger

    482

    Story score (upvotes).

  • titlestring

    Why we rewrote our build system in Rust

    Story title. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

  • urlstring

    https://blog.tacitlabs.dev/rust-build-system

    Story link.

top level
  • foundboolean

    true

    True when the story id resolved.

  • reason"not_found"

    Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.

You get back. Named, typed fields in the same shape whichever source answers.

FAQ

About the Hacker News Story API

The AnyAPI Hacker News Story API returns Hacker News story data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/hackernews.story. Get a Hacker News story by id - title, link, author, points, and comment count as clean JSON. AnyAPI routes each request across 2 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $1.50 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Hacker News story calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 0.2 seconds across 6 measured calls.

It costs from $1.50 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars 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.

Get a Hacker News story by id - title, link, author, points, and comment count as clean JSON. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Hacker News story calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 0.2 seconds across 6 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.

Yes. A new AnyAPI account starts with $0.10 of free balance and no card required, which covers 66 Hacker News Story calls at $0.0015 each.

AnyAPI asks the next of its 2 sources in the same request, cheapest first, so one source going down does not fail your call.

Send a POST request to https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/hackernews.story with your AnyAPI key in an "Authorization: Bearer" header and the input as a JSON body. The same key and the same wallet work on every AnyAPI endpoint.

No. You add US dollars to one prepaid AnyAPI balance and each request draws it down. There is no monthly plan and no minimum, and the same balance pays for every AnyAPI endpoint.

Yes. Install @getanyapi/sdk from npm for TypeScript or getanyapi from pip for Python. Both call every AnyAPI endpoint with the same key, and any HTTP client works too.

Yes. An agent can connect to the AnyAPI MCP server at https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp, or create its own free-trial key with one unauthenticated POST to https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup and call this endpoint over HTTP.
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