# Hacker News Search: Browser Automation and Testing

> Hacker News Search: Browser Automation and Testing is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Searches public Hacker News stories specifically about browser automation and testing, returning links, scores, comments, authors, and dates.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-browser-testing-operators?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-search-browser-automation-and-testing-1491781d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fgBjLtseF4HMFdPxp2Ras

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability hacker-news-search-browser-automation-and-testing-1491781d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 stories about browser automation and testing — I want to see what the developer community is currently discussing about tools like Playwright, Puppeteer, or Cypress.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated community insights specifically from Hacker News about browser automation and testing topics, rather than general web search. Ideal when developer sentiment, votes, and comment engagement are important signals, and when you want results scoped to the HN tech community rather than marketing content.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for the given query — returns empty results
- max_results out of range (must be 1–10) — validation error
- Service unavailable or payment processing failure — HTTP error response
- Query too vague returns low-relevance stories

## How this service works

Hacker News search: browser automation and testing: Search public Hacker News stories about browser automation and testing. Returns story links, scores, comments, authors, and dates.

## Output

Returns a list of Hacker News stories (up to 10) matching the browser automation and testing topic, each including the story title, URL, HN score, number of comments, author username, and publication date.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "browser automation and testing Operations teams",
   "description": "Optional focused query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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