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Hacker News API

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Last activityJan 1, 2025
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Repository: HackerNews/API ยท Data checked Oct 2026

About

The Hacker News API gives you the same stories, comments, and rankings you see on hackernews.com. Top stories, newest posts, jobs, user profiles, and full comment threads. It is completely free with no key and no signup. You just paste a URL into your browser and get clean data back.

Details

No key needed. You can call it right away.

Auth: No key

Rate limit: No documented rate limit (official, Firebase-backed API)

Verified: 2026-09-13

Best for: personal developer fun

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Setup

  1. Open the example URL in your browser to see a list of story IDs.
  2. Fetch any story with https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/ID.json.
  3. Combine the ID list with item calls in your own code.
  4. Cache results instead of refetching every minute.
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