Full-text search across all of Hacker News (via the Algolia HN API)
Full-text search across all of Hacker News (via the Algolia HN API). Search stories or comments by keyword, sorted by relevance or by date (newest first). Filter by tags (story/comment/ask_hn/show_hn/poll) and by author. Each hit: title, URL, author, points, comment count, story/comment text, created time, and canonical HN URL. Net-new vs news.hn-top (curated feeds) and news.search (general news).
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
245 msmedian answer time
$0.003listed price per call
$0.003price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
GET https://2s.io/api/news/hn-search
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | 2s.io |
| Networks | eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 3 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.003 | 245 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"author": "example",
"limit": 1,
"query": "",
"sort": "relevance",
"tags": "story"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"properties": {
"method": {
"const": "GET"
},
"queryParams": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"author": {
"description": "Restrict to one HN author.",
"maxLength": 40,
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"query": {
"default": "",
"description": "Search keywords (may be empty when filtering by tags/author).",
"maxLength": 400,
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"enum": [
"relevance",
"date"
],
"type": "string"
},
"tags": {
"enum": [
"story",
"comment",
"ask_hn",
"show_hn",
"poll"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"queryParams"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}