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Hacker News MCP Server — Stories & Comments for AI Agents

MCP Server for Hacker News. Fetch top stories, new posts, job listings, and comments. AI-agent ready — perfect for developer news monitoring and AI research pipelines.

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Hacker News MCP Server — Stories Search & Trends for AI Agents

Search and scrape Hacker News stories via the Algolia API. Find the most popular or most recent stories by keyword, with points, comments, author, and story text.

🧠 MCP Server — AI Agent Ready

This actor is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server — AI assistants (Claude, GPT, Cursor) can call it directly:

{
  "searchQuery": "node.js",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "sortBy": "byPopularity"
}

Returns structured data: title, URL, points, author, comments, domain — perfect for developer news monitoring, trend analysis, and AI research pipelines.

Features

Full HN archive — searches 10M+ stories (back to 2006)
Sort by popularity or date — hottest first or newest first
Numeric filters — filter by points (points>100), date, or comments
Structured output — title, URL, points, author, comments, story text, domain, HN thread URL
CheerioCrawler — JSON API, 256MB RAM, ~0.5s per query
No API key needed — free Algolia API, no authentication
No proxy needed — fully accessible from datacenter IPs

Quick Start

Search popular stories

{
  "searchQuery": "node.js",
  "maxResults": 30,
  "sortBy": "byPopularity"
}

Search recent stories about AI

{
  "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "sortBy": "byDate"
}

Filter by high-quality posts

{
  "searchQuery": "rust",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "sortBy": "byPopularity",
  "numericFilters": "points>200"
}

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
`searchQuery`	string	`"node.js"`	Search term or phrase
`maxResults`	integer	`30`	Max stories to return (max 200)
`sortBy`	select	`byPopularity`	`byPopularity` (points) or `byDate` (recent)
`numericFilters`	string	`""`	Filter by points/date. E.g. `points>100`, `created_at_i>1721800000`

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
`objectID`	string	Hacker News story ID
`title`	string	Story title
`url`	string	External article URL (or HN thread if no external link)
`hnUrl`	string	Hacker News discussion thread URL
`points`	integer	Upvote count
`author`	string	Submitte r username
`num_comments`	integer	Comment count
`created_at`	string	ISO timestamp of submission
`storyText`	string	Story/ask text (HTML stripped, truncated to 1000 chars)
`domain`	string	Source domain (e.g., "github.com", "arstechnica.com")
`searchQuery`	string	Original search term
`sortBy`	string	Sort method used
`scrapedAt`	string	Timestamp of scrape

Use Cases

Trend monitoring — track what the HN community is discussing about your industry
Content research — find popular articles and discussions by keyword
Lead generation — identify active HN users and discussions in your space
Data analysis — analyze HN story patterns, point distributions, domain popularity
Personal feeds — build custom HN search feeds for specific topics

Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 results — pay only for what you scrape. No monthly subscription.

Changelog

Version	Date	Changes
0.0.1	2026-07-24	Initial build — Algolia API, sort by date/popularity, numeric filters

Support

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