HackerTube

HackerTube curates YouTube videos recommended by Hacker News, offering a daily mix of tech talks and tutorials. Users can browse topics, save videos for later, and track watch history without needing an account. The platform aggregates an open dataset of over 6,000 videos and 40,000 Hacker News comments, providing AI‑generated summaries and filters by length. It aims to surface high‑quality, community‑vetted content for developers and tech enthusiasts.

HackerTube is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Video, Curated, Hacker News, and TechTalks.

HackerTube’s developer surface includes pricing, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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13.9/100 emerging Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessPaid

0 APIs

Company Video Curated Hacker NewsTechTalks

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 13.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 8.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
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Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

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Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points Ask about this →

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HackerTube API pricing

Prices published by HackerTube, read 2026-11-08 from hackertubes.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
23000 credits	$5.00
81000 credits	$15.00
174000 credits	$29.00

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

HackerTube Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

HackerTube Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hackertubes
name: HackerTube
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://hackertubes.com/og-image.png
description: HackerTube curates YouTube videos recommended by Hacker News, offering a daily mix of tech talks and tutorials.
  Users can browse topics, save videos for later, and track watch history without needing an account. The platform aggregates
  an open dataset of over 6,000 videos and 40,000 Hacker News comments, providing AI‑generated summaries and filters by length.
  It aims to surface high‑quality, community‑vetted content for developers and tech enthusiasts.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/hackertubes/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-08 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-08'
modified: '2026-11-08'
tags:
- Company
- Video
- Curated
- Hacker News
- TechTalks
tags_raw:
- Company
- Video
- Curated
- HackerNews
- TechTalks
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hackertubes-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/hackertubes-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/hackertubes-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hackertubes.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hackertubes.com/privacy
- type: Pricing
  url: https://hackertubes.com/pricing
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hackertubes-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hackertubes.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: ()
apis: []
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: HackerTube curates videos and does not expose a public API.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.hackertubes.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-11-08'
x-submission-notes: 'HackerTube (https://hackertubes.com/) curates videos recommended by Hacker News: a fresh daily mix, topic
  browsing, watch-later and watch history. No public API or OpenAPI spec at the moment — happy to provide more details on
  request.'
x-submission-probe: 2026-11-07 200 https://hackertubes.com/ ctl=404
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-08'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

HackerTube API — frequently asked questions

How much does the HackerTube API cost?

HackerTube publishes its prices; its 23000 credits plan is $5.00 as of 2026-11-08. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for HackerTube, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the HackerTube API ready for AI agents?

HackerTube has a Kin Score of 13.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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