Hacker News

Read the top and newest Hacker News stories and single stories or comments. No account needed.

Get top stories

Reads the IDs of the stories on the Hacker News front page, top first.

Outputs

Name	Type	Details
Story IDs	List of ID	Up to 500 story IDs in list order. Read a story with "Get story or comment".

Get newest stories

Reads the IDs of the newest Hacker News stories, newest first.

Outputs

Name	Type	Details
Story IDs	List of ID	Up to 500 story IDs in list order. Read a story with "Get story or comment".

Get story or comment

Reads one Hacker News story, comment, job or poll by its ID.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Details
Item ID	Whole number	Yes	The number after id= in the Hacker News address. Minimum: 1.

Outputs

Name	Type	Details
Found	Yes/No	Whether the item exists. When not, everything else is empty.
Type	Text	story, comment, job, poll or pollopt. May be empty.
Title	Text	The title. Empty for comments. May be empty.
Link	URL	The page the story links to. Empty for text posts. May be empty.
Text	Text	The text of a comment or text post, as HTML. May be empty.
Author	Text	The username of the author. May be empty.
Points	Whole number	The points of a story. May be empty.
Comments	Whole number	How many comments a story has. May be empty.
Posted at	Date and time	When it was posted. May be empty.
Hacker News link	URL	The discussion page on Hacker News. May be empty.