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Hacker News Dev Sentiment & Engagement Lookup
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Hacker News Dev Sentiment & Engagement Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns Hacker News engagement metrics for a project or topic: story count, total/average points and comments, and top story details, via the HN Algolia search API.
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Hacker News engagement / dev-sentiment for a project or topic: story count, total & average points and comments, and the top stories (title/url/points/comments/date). From the keyless HN Algolia search API.
Output
Returns a summary object with the total number of HN stories matching the query, total and average points and comments across those stories, and a list of top stories each with title, URL, point count, comment count, and publication date.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“How much buzz has 'Bun' been getting on Hacker News over the last 180 days? Give me the story count, average points, and the top posts.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://payai.agentstools.dev/dev/hnWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need quantitative Hacker News engagement data — story count, points, comments — for a project, library, framework, or tech topic, especially when assessing developer-community interest or open-source traction. Prefer this over generic web search when you specifically want HN-community signal aggregated over a configurable time window.
Side effects
- Empty results if query matches no HN stories in the specified window
- Algolia API rate limiting or downtime causing upstream failures
- Invalid days parameter (must be between 1 and 3650) returning a validation error
- Very broad queries returning noisy/irrelevant stories
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
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