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Hacker News API
Search Hacker News stories and comments by relevance or date, read the live front page, and fetch full item threads with their comment trees. Filter by story, Ask HN, Show HN, poll or comment. Great for tech-trend monitoring, brand and topic tracking, content aggregation and developer tools.
API health
healthy- Uptime
- 100.00%
- Server probes · 24h
- Avg latency
- 811 ms
- Server probes · 24h
- Subscribers
- 4,886
- active
- Total calls
- 75
- last 7 days
Pricing
Pick a tier — billed monthly, cancel anytime.
Free
Free
- 2,000 calls / month
- 2 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 2,000 calls/mo at 2 rps
- No credit card
- Front page + item thread reads
- Relevance & date search
Basic
€7.00 /month
- 60,000 calls / month
- 8 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 60,000 calls/mo at 8 rps
- Full comment-tree fetch
- Commercial use allowed
- Email support
Pro
€19.00 /month
- 350,000 calls / month
- 25 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 350,000 calls/mo at 25 rps
- Deep search filters (tags, points, author)
- Bulk item batch endpoint
- Priority email support
Mega
€49.00 /month
- 1,500,000 calls / month
- 75 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 1,500,000 calls/mo at 75 rps
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Highest priority + dedicated support
- Higher burst rps on request
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Code snippets
Sign up to get an API key, then call any path under your slug.
curl https://api.oanor.com/hackernews-api/SOME_PATH \
-H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
const res = await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/hackernews-api/SOME_PATH", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
const data = await res.json();
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/hackernews-api/SOME_PATH");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
r = requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/hackernews-api/SOME_PATH",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
print(r.json())
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