Free APISocialNo keyOfficial
Hacker News Search API (Algolia)
Full-text search over every HN story and comment, keyless and free
Algolia hosts a free full-text search layer over all public Hacker News content, indexed in near real time. It exposes search, search-by-date, and item/user lookups with numeric filters on points, comment counts, and timestamps. It is the practical companion to the Firebase API when you need querying rather than ID walking.
Free tier
Free, no keyRate limits
~10,000 requests/hour per IP (not officially published)Auth
No keyBase URL
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1What you'd build with it
- Let an agent search HN for prior discussion on a product or technology
- Pull the top N stories above a points threshold in a date window
- Fetch a complete comment thread by ID for summarization
Key endpoints
- GET
/searchRelevance-ranked full-text search with tags and numeric filters - GET
/search_by_dateSame query, sorted newest-first - GET
/items/{id}Full item with nested children (comment tree) - GET
/users/{username}User profile and karma
Members
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Tags
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