Search Hacker News with one call.
Read Hacker News, stories and comments, without building or maintaining a scraper. Same response shape as every other platform here, so one parser handles all of them.
1 credit a call
50 free credits on signup, no card
failed calls: 0 credits
50 free credits on signup, no card
failed calls: 0 credits
1The call
curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \ "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/hackernews/search?query=cloudflare+workers"
This call costs 1 credit. A new account starts with 50 free credits on any platform: create a key in the dashboard and this command runs as-is.
2Why not build this yourself
Hacker News is the one source here that is genuinely easy to read yourself - the Algolia index is free and unauthenticated. It is included so a cross-platform query returns HN alongside everything else in the same shape, not because it is hard.
3What comes backcaptured 2026-08-27
{
"success": true,
"platform": "hackernews",
"data": {
"total": 1282,
"items": [
{
"id": "17154971",
"platform": "hackernews",
"type": "post",
"title": "GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers",
"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154971",
"author": "jgrid007",
"created_at": "2018-05-25T15:59:09Z",
"metrics": {
"score": 755,
"comments": 1467
},
"extra": {
"external_url": "https://apility.io/2018/05/25/gdpr-lazy-block-eu-users-cloudflare-workers/"
}
}
]
},
"credits_used": 1
}Items from Hacker News carry: author, created_at, extra, id, metrics, platform, title, type, url.
4Characteristics
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| /v1/hackernews/profile | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/hackernews/search | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/hackernews/story | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/hackernews/story/comments | 1 credit a call |
| Typical latency | 586 ms, measured 2026-08-27 |
| Coverage | Stories, comments and polls. Ranking is Algolia's, not the front page's. |
| Data | Publicly available content only, nothing behind a login. See the public data notice. |
| Reference | Every Hacker News endpoint, its parameters and its price: API reference |
5Other platforms
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