OD. Media & Technology

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.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 5

GET /v1/hackernews/search Search Hacker News #

GET /v1/hackernews/stories List ranked Hacker News stories #

GET /v1/hackernews/story Get a Hacker News story #

GET /v1/hackernews/story/comments Get a Hacker News story’s comments #

GET /v1/hackernews/profile Get a Hacker News profile #

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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.
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- url: https://api.scrapeatlas.com
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