Hacker News Search — Stories, Comments & Live Front Page
Pricing
from $0.35 / 1,000 result items
Search all of Hacker News (stories, comments, Ask/Show/Launch HN, polls, jobs) by keyword with points, comments, date, author, domain and story filters, or pull the live top/new/best/ask/show/jobs lists. Optional nested comment trees and author profiles.
id
Required
HN item id (stable, same as news.ycombinator.com/item?id=)
type
Required
story | comment | poll | pollopt | job
kind
Optional
Input kind that produced the item
query
Optional
Search query that matched the item (null for live lists)
title
Optional
url
Optional
External URL of the submission (null for text posts and comments)
domain
Optional
Hostname of url without www.
hnUrl
Required
Discussion page on Hacker News
points
Optional
numComments
Optional
createdAt
Optional
ISO 8601 UTC
text
Optional
Story/comment body as plain text (HTML stripped, entities decoded, truncated to textMaxLength)
storyId
Optional
Id of the story a comment belongs to (equals id for stories)
storyTitle
Optional
Parent story title (comments only)
storyUrl
Optional
Parent story URL (comments only)
parentId
Optional
Direct parent item id (comments only)
source
Required
algolia | firebase
sourceUrl
Optional
API request that returned the item
fetchedAt
Required
ISO 8601 timestamp of the fetch
comments
Optional
Nested comment tree when includeComments=true: {id, author, createdAt, text, hnUrl, children[]}