# 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, comment counts, authors, and dates.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-browser-testing-agent-builders?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-d02da8d0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fBKHAHoLaNz-TTIF0-qu9

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-d02da8d0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 stories about browser automation and testing — I want to see the titles, links, scores, and how many comments each has.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated, topic-scoped Hacker News search results specifically about browser automation and testing without building your own HN scraper. Prefer it over generic web search when you want community-validated content (scores, comments) from the HN developer audience on this niche subject.

## Known failure modes

- Query returns zero results if no matching HN stories exist for the given query
- max_results out of range (below 1 or above 10) returns a validation error
- Network or upstream HN API unavailability causes a timeout or 5xx error
- Overly broad or irrelevant custom query may return loosely related 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 up to 10 Hacker News story records, each containing the story title, URL, score (upvotes), comment count, author username, and publication date — filtered to the browser automation and testing topic area.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

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