Lobsters

Lobsters is a technology-focused link aggregation and community discussion platform. Its public REST API provides access to stories, comments, tags, and user profiles, returning JSON representations of community-submitted technology links, ranked and filtered by the community.

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APIs

Lobsters API

The Lobsters public API provides read access to stories, comments, tags, and user profiles from the technology-focused link aggregation community. Endpoints return JSON and are ...

Pricing Plans

Plans

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

0 limits

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FinOps

Finops

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Semantic Vocabularies

Lobsters Context

23 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Example Payloads

Comment

14 fields

EXAMPLE

Story

12 fields

EXAMPLE

Tag

8 fields

EXAMPLE

User

10 fields

EXAMPLE

Resources

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aid: lobsters
name: Lobsters
description: Lobsters is a technology-focused link aggregation and community discussion platform. Its public REST API provides
  access to stories, comments, tags, and user profiles, returning JSON representations of community-submitted technology links,
  ranked and filtered by the community.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Link Aggregation
- Community
- Technology
- News
- Stories
- Comments
- Tags
apis:
- name: Lobsters API
  description: The Lobsters public API provides read access to stories, comments, tags, and user profiles from the technology-focused
    link aggregation community. Endpoints return JSON and are available without authentication for public data. Stories can
    be retrieved by newest or hottest ranking, filtered by tag, and paginated by page number.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://lobste.rs
  baseURL: https://lobste.rs
  tags:
  - Stories
  - Comments
  - Tags
  - Users
  - Link Aggregation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  contact:
  - FN: Lobsters
    url: https://lobste.rs/about
common:
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
- type: About
  url: https://lobste.rs/about
- type: Tags
  url: https://lobste.rs/tags
- type: RSS
  url: https://lobste.rs/rss
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com
  email: info@apievangelist.com