2 units. A failed run costs 0. The same input within 5 min costs 0.

hackernews-search

Q: How do I get Hacker News data through an API?

Call POST /recipes/hackernews-search with your key and query and tags and sort. You get rows with the 9 fields above. The recipe is tested against the live site every 6 hours.

Q: Can I try it without paying?

Yes. Sign up with Google, GitHub or email for a free key with 1,000 credits every month. No credit card.

Q: What if the site changes?

The health check runs every 6 hours against the live site. A failing recipe shows as failing on this page until we fix it.

Stories or comments on Hacker News that match a query, from the public Algolia API: title, link, points, author, comment count, time, and the Hacker News page. tags picks story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn or poll; sort is relevance or date; limit up to 100 in one call.

verifiedhn.algolia.comWASM module9 fields2 unitsfresh 5 min

Run it below API reference

‹ Recipes

…json

POST api.crawl4ai.com/recipes/…

$ crawl recipe

Live · your key · counts against your quota✓ 200 OK

# Hit Run - the rows render here as a table, with the cost

Fields

9 columns on every row. null means the site does not state it.

field	type	meaning
title	string
url	string
hn_url	string
points	integer
author	string
comments	integer
created	string
id	string
text

null means the site does not state it.

titlestring

urlstring

hn_urlstring

pointsinteger

authorstring

commentsinteger

createdstring

idstring

text

How it behaves

Cost. 2 units. A failed run costs 0.

Freshness 5 min. The same input within 5 min is served from cache at 0 units.

Questions about this recipeQuestions

Short answers. The API reference has the long ones.

How do I get Hacker News data through an API?

Call POST /recipes/hackernews-search with your key and query and tags and sort. You get rows with the 9 fields above. The recipe is tested against the live site every 6 hours.

What does it cost?

Can I try it without paying?

What if the site changes?

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