Hacker News
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Read Hacker News stories, comments and users, and search them through the public HN APIs without signing in.
8 actions
| Action | Effect | Data handled | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| hackernews_list_storiesLists the ids of the current top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN or job stories, in ranking order | read | General | |
| hackernews_get_itemReads one item by id: a story, comment, job, Ask HN or poll, with its title, text, author, score, time, URL and the ids of its direct replies (kids) | read | Personal data | |
| hackernews_get_discussionReads a story or comment with its whole reply tree in one call, each comment nested under its parent with author, text and time | read | Personal data | |
| hackernews_get_userReads a user's profile: karma, about text, account creation time (Unix seconds), submission count and the ids of their 20 most recent submissions | read | Personal data | |
| hackernews_searchSearches stories, comments and polls by relevance, then points and comments, optionally filtered by tags (story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn, front_page, author_<name>, story_<id>) or numeric filters such as points>100 | read | Personal data | |
| hackernews_search_by_dateSearches stories and comments newest first, with the same tag and numeric filters as search | read | Personal data | |
| hackernews_get_max_itemReturns the id of the newest item, to walk backwards through everything posted most recently | read | General | |
| hackernews_get_updatesReturns the ids of items and the usernames of profiles that changed recently | read | General |