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Hacker News Discussion Monitor (Unofficial)

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Search Hacker News stories, comments, polls, and jobs through the public Algolia API. Filter by query, content type, author, points, date, and incremental history; return normalized discussion signals in a dataset.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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25 days ago

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Inputs

query: words or phrases to search (default: developer tools).
searchMode: date uses search_by_date; relevance uses search.
tags: any of story, comment, poll, job.
author, numericFilters, minPoints, fromDate, toDate, maxItems.
emitOnlyNew: when enabled, records whose Algolia objectID appeared in an earlier run are omitted.

Each dataset row is a structured public hit signal with title, URL, author, score, comment count, timestamps, type, and source text when supplied by Algolia. No linked pages or personal contact information are collected.

Pricing

The configured pay-per-event price is $0.005 USD per discussion hit delivered. API requests, duplicate hits, and filtered hits are not charged.

This is an independent, unofficial integration and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hacker News or Y Combinator.

Local development

npm install
npm run build
npm test

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