Hacker News API – Stories, Front Page & Who Is Hiring Jobs

Hacker News as clean rows, from its official search API: search stories by keyword, date and points, get the front page, Ask HN and Show HN, or turn the monthly "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread into a job list with company, role, location, remote and salary.

Built for founders and marketers watching where their product or competitors come up, recruiters and job seekers working through the hiring thread, researchers, and AI agents that need what tech people are talking about.

What you get

• Stories: title, link, domain, points, number of comments, date, and the text of Ask HN and Show HN posts.
• Filters: search terms, newest first or most relevant, minimum points, only the last N hours (good for a daily schedule).
• Front page as it is right now, and the newest Ask HN and Show HN posts.
• Who is hiring? jobs: one row per job post with company, role, location, REMOTE / ONSITE / HYBRID, the first salary figure, the first line as written and the full text. Pick a month or take the newest thread, and filter by words such as "python" or "remote".
• No personal data: usernames and email addresses are left out, also written as name [at] company [dot] com (they become [email on HN]; the post's link on Hacker News is included).

Example output rows

A real story:

{
  "type": "story",
  "search": "apify",
  "title": "Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js",
  "url": "https://crawlee.dev/",
  "domain": "crawlee.dev",
  "points": 282,
  "comments": 80,
  "created_at": "2022-08-23T06:25:39Z",
  "text": "Hey HN,\nThis is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js tha …",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32561127",
  "id": "32561127"
}

A real job post (text shortened here):

{
  "type": "job",
  "thread": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)",
  "company": "United Risk",
  "role": "Early-Career AI Engineers – Full-Stack, Data Science, Infrastructure/DevOps (10 openings)",
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "remote": false,
  "onsite": false,
  "hybrid": true,
  "salary": "$100K–$120K",
  "first_line": "United Risk | Early-Career AI Engineers – Full-Stack, Data Science, Infrastructure/DevOps (10 openings) | New York, NY | HYBRID (2 days/week in office) | FULL-TIME | $100K–$120K",
  "text": "United Risk | Early-Career AI Engineers – Full-Stack, Data Science, Infrastructure/DevOps (10 openings) | New York, NY | HYBRID (2 days/week in office) | FULL-TIME | $100K–$120K\nUnited Risk is a global property and casua …",
  "created_at": "2026-11-02T16:06:11.000Z",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338822",
  "id": "50338822"
}

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• $0.15 per 1,000 rows ($0.00015 per story or job post).
• $0.001 per run start.

Examples: the pre-filled search (100 stories) costs $0.016. A whole hiring thread (about 300 jobs) costs about $0.05. Error rows and searches without results are never charged. A scheduled run with lastHours that finds nothing new ends normally.

Input

Field	What it does
mode	search, front_page, ask_hn, show_hn or whos_hiring.
searches	Search terms, one per line. For job posts, every word must appear in the post.
maxResults	Per search, up to 1,000. Default 100 stories, or the whole hiring thread.
sort	relevance or newest. Ask HN and Show HN default to newest.
minPoints	Only stories with at least this many points.
lastHours	Only stories from the last N hours.
hiringMonth	e.g. October 2026. Empty = the newest thread.

Good to know

• Company, role and location in job rows are read from the post's first line, which most posts write as Company | Role | Location | REMOTE | Salary. When a post does not follow it, a field can be empty or wrong; first_line always holds the original.
• Hacker News' search API returns at most 1,000 results per search; use several searches or lastHours for more.
• Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator.

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