What Hacker News said about a topic
What Hacker News said about a topic: matching stories with points, comment counts and links to the threads, plus aggregates — total matches, points and comments returned, the domains most often submitted, and the first/last time it was discussed.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-18
1 of 1checks answered this week
503 msmedian answer time
$0.004listed price per call
$0.004price 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
POST https://api.weblens.dev/discussions
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | api.weblens.dev |
| Networks | eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 2 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-18 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.004 | 503 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"limit": 10,
"query": "cloudflare workers"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"properties": {
"limit": {
"default": 10,
"description": "Stories to return (1-50, default 10)",
"example": 10,
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "number"
},
"query": {
"description": "What to search Hacker News for",
"example": "cloudflare workers",
"maxLength": 200,
"minLength": 1,
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"default": "relevance",
"description": "Rank by relevance (default) or newest first",
"enum": [
"relevance",
"recent"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"discussedAt": {
"type": "string"
},
"query": {
"type": "string"
},
"requestId": {
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"enum": [
"hackernews"
],
"type": "string"
},
"stories": {
"description": "Each: title, url, points, comments, author, postedAt, discussionUrl",
"items": {
"properties": {
"author": {
"type": "string"
},
"comments": {
"type": "integer"
},
"discussionUrl": {
"description": "Link to the HN thread",
"type": "string"
},
"points": {
"type": "integer"
},
"postedAt": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"url": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"summary": {
"description": "totalMatches, returned, pointsReturned, commentsReturned, topDomains, firstSeen, lastSeen",
"properties": {
"commentsReturned": {
"description": "Summed over the RETURNED stories only",
"type": "integer"
},
"firstSeen": {
"type": "string"
},
"lastSeen": {
"type": "string"
},
"pointsReturned": {
"description": "Summed over the RETURNED stories only",
"type": "integer"
},
"returned": {
"type": "integer"
},
"topDomains": {
"description": "Most-submitted domains among the returned stories",
"type": "array"
},
"totalMatches": {
"description": "Stories HN matched overall, which may exceed those returned",
"type": "integer"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}