OD. Media & Technology Hacker News API
Read the ranked Hacker News front page, search stories and comments by relevance or date, retrieve a story, read its comment tree, and look up user profiles.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: ScrapeAtlas Hacker News API
version: 0.1.0
description: ScrapeAtlas turns public social media data into structured JSON. Get profiles, posts, videos, comments, ads and products through one API for your apps and AI agents. Authenticate at api.scrapeatlas.com with a customer x-api-key. Availability is documented per platform; local worker origins are operator references.
servers:
- url: https://api.scrapeatlas.com
tags:
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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/scrapeatlas/openapi/scrapeatlas-hacker-news-api-openapi.yml