Hacker News

Hacker News

Public read-only access to Hacker News stories, comments, users, and full-text search via the official Firebase and Algolia APIs.

No auth required14 tools

Three ways to use Hacker News

Ask your specialist

Pull data, take actions, or answer questions with this integration, right in a conversation.

Build a workflow

Create automated workflows that trigger on events, run on a schedule, or chain multiple tools together.

Power an app

Use this integration as a data source or action layer behind a dashboard, form, or internal tool.

Supported tools

Actions your AI agents can perform with Hacker News.

Get Ask HN Stories

Get up to 200 latest "Ask HN" story ids.

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Get Best Stories

Get up to 500 best story ids ranked by score over a longer window than the front page.

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Get Item

Fetch a single Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt) by its numeric id.

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Get Item with Nested Comments (Algolia)

Fetch a Hacker News item from the Algolia HN Search API by id, returned with its full nested comment tree in `children`.

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Get Job Stories

Get up to 200 latest job posting ids from Hacker News.

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Get Max Item ID

Get the current largest item id on Hacker News — the watermark for walking backward to discover every item.

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Get started automating Hacker News

01Connect your accountLink your account securely with OAuth or an API key.
02Choose a trigger or toolPick the events and actions your workflow should use.
03Configure the workflowDescribe what you want and your specialist wires it up for you.
04Refine the processTest runs, review output, and tweak until it's right.
05Turn it onSet it live and it runs on a schedule or on events.

Your Hacker News workflows, on autopilot.

Connect Hacker News and let AI agents handle the busywork.

Connect Hacker News

Create an account to connect your tools.

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