This tool reads live information from Hacker News, a popular website where peopl
This tool reads live information from Hacker News, a popular website where people share and discuss technology news. You can either ask for a current list of stories (like the Top, New, Best, Ask, Show, or Job lists) or ask for every story, job posting, and poll that was posted on one specific calendar day in the past. You can also choose to pull in the discussion comments underneath each story, including nested replies several levels deep.
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
751 msmedian answer time
$0.01listed price per call
$0.01price 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://hackernews-data.underscoredone.com/fetch
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | hackernews-data.underscoredone.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 5 from 4 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.01 | 751 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"category": "top",
"comment_limit": 3,
"limit": 5,
"reply_depth": 1
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"category": {
"description": "Which current list to pull from: top, new, best, ask, show, or job. Ignored if a date is given.",
"type": "string"
},
"comment_limit": {
"description": "How many top-level comments to fetch per story in category mode. Default 10, maximum 100, 0 means none.",
"type": "integer"
},
"date": {
"description": "A calendar day in YYYY-MM-DD format (UTC). If given, the tool switches to scanning that whole day instead of using a category.",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"description": "The largest number of results to return. Default is 30, maximum is 200.",
"type": "integer"
},
"page_token": {
"description": "A resume point from a previous date-scan response, used to continue scanning the same day where it left off.",
"type": "integer"
},
"replies_per_comment": {
"description": "The largest number of replies fetched per comment at each level. Default 5, maximum 20.",
"type": "integer"
},
"reply_depth": {
"description": "How many levels of nested replies to fetch below each comment. Default 0, maximum 5.",
"type": "integer"
}
},
"required": [],
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST",
"PUT",
"PATCH"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"api_version": {
"type": "string"
},
"category": {
"type": "string"
},
"count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"date": {
"type": "string"
},
"mode": {
"type": "string"
},
"next_page_token": {
"type": "string"
},
"range_complete": {
"type": "string"
},
"results": {
"items": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"scanned": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"api_version",
"mode",
"category",
"date",
"count",
"scanned",
"next_page_token",
"range_complete",
"results"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}