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Hacker News

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Business capabilities this tag reaches

Data & Reference Information Services 1

Providers using this tag (1)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Thin 1 Limited public surface area

Hacker NewsDeveloper CommunityTechnology NewsY Combinator1 API28.3

APIs with this tag (9)

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Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps

AnyAPI Hacker News APIThe Hacker News API from AnyAPI — 4 operation(s) for hacker news.64.8 Social Fetch Hacker News APIThe Hacker News API from Social Fetch — 13 operation(s) for hacker news.64.5

Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

replynodes-com Hackernews APIThe Hackernews API from replynodes-com — 10 operation(s) for hackernews.52.2 SocialCrawl Hacker News APIHackernews endpoints51.6 SocialListeningAPI Hacker News APIHacker News API endpoints.49.7 Monocrawl Hacker News APIThe Hacker News API from Monocrawl — 4 operation(s) for hacker news.49.3

Thin 3 Limited public surface area

HonestHook Hackernews APIThe Hackernews API from HonestHook — 4 operation(s) for hackernews.38.9 OD. Media & Technology Hacker News APIRead the ranked Hacker News front page, search stories and comments by relevance or date, retrieve a story,...38.3 _done hacker news APIThe hacker news API from _done — 1 operation(s) for hacker news.37.8

Companies reaching this through an API (9)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Hacker News” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

_done AnyAPI HonestHook Monocrawl OD. Media & Technology replynodes-com Social Fetch SocialCrawl SocialListeningAPI

Score breakdown

Frequency

31.2

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.0

spread across providers

Quality lift

33.9

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

0.0

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag comes from

Api tag9

Openapi tag4

Openapi op tag17

Self named1

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