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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 2026-09-15).
Searches Hacker News stories, posts, and comments via a pay-per-request API with no subscription required
Price / call$0.00325
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
1,200+ scraping and data APIs behind one key. Pay per request in real dollars. No subscriptions, nothing monthly, nothing to cancel.
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.searchWhen 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
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json"
}Tags
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