Hacker News
Full-text search over every Hacker News story and comment, by relevance or by date, via Algolia.
- Provider id:
hackernews - Tools: 1, at $0.001 per call
- Categories: News, Developer
- Homepage: news.ycombinator.com
- Provider docs: hn.algolia.com/api
- Attribution: Hacker News via Algolia
| Tool | Price | What it does |
|---|---|---|
hackernews/search | $0.001 | Search Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN and Show HN posts by relevance or newest first. |
Inputs are JSON bodies, and unknown fields are rejected with 422 invalid_input (not charged). POST /v1/inspect with a tool's id returns the same input schema, plus the output schema.
Hacker News Search
hackernews/search · $0.001 per call (local) · News, Developer
Search Hacker News stories, comments, Ask HN and Show HN posts by relevance or newest first.
Full-text search over all of Hacker News through Algolia, with typo tolerance off so results contain your exact words. Returns each item's title, link (the story's URL, or the HN thread for comments and text posts), points, comment count, author, time and HN link; comments and Ask HN bodies come as plain text cut to 600 characters. Filter to the last N days or sort by date for 'what is HN saying now'. It does not fetch the linked article (use firecrawl/scrape or jina/read) and covers HN only; for general headlines use akashi/news or serper/news.
Related: akashi/news, serper/news, firecrawl/scrape, github/search-repos.
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | yes | Words to find (exact spelling). 1–200 characters. |
type | string | no | story, comment, ask_hn or show_hn. One of story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn. Default "story". |
sort | string | no | relevance (points weigh in) or date (newest first). One of relevance, date. Default "relevance". |
since_days | integer | no | Only items from the last N days. From 1 to 3650. |
limit | integer | no | Items to return. From 1 to 20. Default 10. |
Example
{
"query": "sqlite",
"type": "story",
"sort": "relevance",
"limit": 5
}node akashi.mjs run hackernews/search --input '{"query":"sqlite","type":"story","sort":"relevance","limit":5}'