Hacker News API
Developer & SoftwareAccess Hacker News public data through one AllAPI key — 29 endpoints across the Hacker News surface. No Hacker News account, no credentials, no scraping stack — one anonymous request returns real data or a documented honest error, never fabricated.
| Method | Endpoint | Operation |
|---|---|---|
| POST | /api/hackernews/algolia_item | Algolia item |
| POST | /api/hackernews/algolia_user | Algolia user |
| POST | /api/hackernews/ask | Ask |
| POST | /api/hackernews/ask_hn | Ask hn |
| POST | /api/hackernews/best | Best |
| POST | /api/hackernews/front_page | Front page |
| POST | /api/hackernews/item | Item |
| POST | /api/hackernews/item/batch | Item batch |
| POST | /api/hackernews/item/comments | Item comments |
| POST | /api/hackernews/item/kids | Item kids |
| POST | /api/hackernews/jobs | Jobs |
| POST | /api/hackernews/maxitem | Maxitem |
| POST | /api/hackernews/new | New |
| POST | /api/hackernews/poll/options | Poll options |
| POST | /api/hackernews/polls | Polls |
| POST | /api/hackernews/search | Search |
| POST | /api/hackernews/search/discussed | Search discussed |
| POST | /api/hackernews/search/popular | Search popular |
| POST | /api/hackernews/search/recent | Search recent |
| POST | /api/hackernews/search_by_date | Search by date |
| POST | /api/hackernews/search_facets | Search facets |
| POST | /api/hackernews/show | Show |
| POST | /api/hackernews/show_hn | Show hn |
| POST | /api/hackernews/top | Top |
| POST | /api/hackernews/updates | Updates |
| POST | /api/hackernews/user | User |
| POST | /api/hackernews/user/comments | User comments |
| POST | /api/hackernews/user/stories | User stories |
| POST | /api/hackernews/user/submissions | User submissions |
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