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Search public Hacker News stories, comments, jobs and polls with bounded time, type and sort filters.

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Job: Search Hacker News
Current price: $0.0050/request
Availability: Ready to run

Tool details

About this tool

Search Hacker News public content by query, relevance or recency, optional content type and optional creation-time bounds. Returns at most 50 normalized items with string IDs, author, plain text, timestamps, scores, hierarchy, external links and canonical Hacker News links. It does not promise complete historical coverage or perform unrestricted crawling.

Inputs and outputs

Input

created_fromstring · optional

Value supplied for created from.

format: date-time

created_tostring · optional

Value supplied for created to.

format: date-time

limitinteger · optional

Value supplied for limit.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 50

querystring · required

Search terms used to find relevant records.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 500

sortstring · optional

Value supplied for sort.

enum: relevance, date

typestring · optional

Value supplied for type.

enum: all, story, comment, job, poll

Output

captured_atstring

Returned captured at value.

itemsarray

Returned items value.

returned_resultsnumber

Returned returned results value.

sortstring

Returned sort value.

typestring

Returned type value.

Example request and output

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Request

{
  "tool_id": "hacker-news.search",
  "input": {
    "sort": "relevance",
    "type": "story",
    "limit": 5,
    "query": "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive"
  }
}

Output

{
  "sort": "relevance",
  "type": "story",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "8863",
      "type": "story",
      "state": "available",
      "title": "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive",
      "author": "dhouston",
      "points": 104,
      "created_at": "2007-04-04T19:55:01.000Z",
      "source_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863",
      "comment_count": 71
    }
  ],
  "captured_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "returned_results": 1
}

Errors and limitations

invalid_input: The query, content type, time range, sort or result limit was outside the bounded Hacker News search contract.example: {"query":"My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive","type":"story","sort":"relevance","limit":5}