AnyAPI Hacker News Search

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AnyAPI Hacker News Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.getanyapi.com, paid per call via x402, $0.00325/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-27).

Searches Hacker News stories, posts, and comments via a pay-per-request API with no subscription required

Price / call$0.00325

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Output

Returns a JSON list of Hacker News stories or comments matching the search query, typically including post titles, URLs, authors, scores, number of comments, and timestamps.

Example use cases

Example prompt

“Search Hacker News for the most recent discussions about 'AI agents' and show me the top 10 results with their scores and comment counts.”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/hackernews.search?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Use this endpoint when you need to search Hacker News programmatically without committing to a subscription — ideal for one-off or infrequent HN searches, agents that need to occasionally surface tech community sentiment, or workflows that aggregate multiple data sources and only need HN search sometimes. At $0.00325 per call, it is cost-effective for sporadic use compared to maintaining a dedicated HN API subscription.

Side effects

Invalid or missing search query returns an error response
Payment failure or insufficient wallet balance results in 402 or authorization error
Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession
Empty results if no HN content matches the query
Network timeout if the upstream Hacker News data source is slow

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
cursor	string	Pagination cursor from a previous response's nextCursor.
handlerequired	string	Instagram username without the leading @.
source	array	Optional. Source ids to prefer, in order, taken from this endpoint's `lanes[].source.id` in /catalog or /apis. Omit it and the cheapest source serves, with automatic failover. Listed sources are tried first in the order given, then the others, unless `allowFallbacks` is false. A single source with `allowFallbacks` false is served only by that source at its price, quoted and charged exactly, with no failover. The price is that of the dearest source that may serve. An id that does not serve this endpoint is rejected as invalid input with no charge; a listed source that is not serving right now is refused with no charge, so omit `source` to be served by another. On a paginated walk, later pages must include the source that served page one, or omit `source`.
ignoreSources	array	Optional. Source ids to skip for this request, taken from this endpoint's `lanes[].source.id`. The cheapest remaining source serves and the price is that of the dearest remaining source. An id that does not serve this endpoint, or that is also in `source`, is rejected as invalid input with no charge; skipping every source is rejected the same way.
allowFallbacks	boolean	Optional, default true. When false, only the sources listed in `source` may serve; the request is refused with no charge if none of them can. When true, the listed sources are tried first and any other source may serve after them, at the normal price.
preferLatencyUnderMs	integer	Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Prefer sources whose typical response time (median over the trailing 30 days, as published on this endpoint's lane health) is under this many milliseconds; among those, the cheapest serves. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source misses the target, a faster and dearer one serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. If no source is that fast the request is still served, by whichever source offers the best speed for its price - it is never refused for being slow. Sources we have not timed are tried last. This is a preference, not a guarantee: the median describes past requests and is not a ceiling on this one, and it excludes any wait this request itself asks for. On a paginated walk it applies to the first page only: later pages stay with the source that page chose, at the price it was quoted.

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json"
}

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