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ScrapeMole Pulse: Hacker News Front Page
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ScrapeMole Pulse: Hacker News Front Page is a paid API for AI agents from pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).
Returns live Hacker News stories (top, new, best, ask, show, or job lists) with titles, scores, comment counts, and URLs
Price / call$0.002
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Pay-per-call "state of the world" lookups that language models cannot know on their own: official ECB exchange rates (latest, historical, conversion), the current time and DST-aware time-zone conversion for scheduling, global weather forecasts (MET Norway, by coordinates or place name) and the live Hacker News front page. Public, non-personal data with sources and licences in every response. USDC via x402, no accounts. Payments: x402 v2, scheme "exact", USDC on Base (eip155:8453). The payment is verified before the work and settled only when the response is 200. Terms: https://pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/terms
Output
A JSON object containing the requested list type, story count, and an array of stories each with id, rank, title, URL, domain, points, comment count, ISO timestamp, and a direct link to the HN discussion thread. Source attribution to the Hacker News API is included.
Example use cases
Daily tech briefing digest
“Give me the top 10 Hacker News stories from today with their titles, scores, and URLs so I can put together a morning tech digest.”
Monitor Ask HN community questions
“Pull the top 10 Ask HN posts from Hacker News right now — I want to see what questions the developer community is currently discussing.”
Discover trending Show HN projects
“Fetch the top 20 Show HN stories from Hacker News — I'm looking for interesting new projects people are shipping this week.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/news/hn?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs real-time Hacker News front-page data without scraping — especially for pay-per-call, no-account workflows using USDC via x402. Prefer over direct HN API calls when you want a clean, licensed, source-attributed JSON response with built-in filtering by list type and story count. Best for agents that need live tech community sentiment, trending developer topics, or job posts without maintaining API credentials.
Side effects
- Hacker News API unavailable — upstream outage returns error
- Invalid list parameter value — must be one of top, new, best, ask, show, or job
- Limit out of range — must be 1-30, invalid values may return error or be clamped
- Payment not completed via x402 — 402 response returned before content is delivered
- Network timeout from upstream HN API causing delayed or empty response
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"list": "top",
"count": 1,
"source": "Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API)",
"stories": [
{
"id": 41234567,
"url": "https://example.org/post",
"rank": 1,
"title": "Show HN: A pay-per-call API for agents",
"domain": "example.org",
"points": 312,
"comments": 141,
"postedAt": "2026-10-12T05:01:00Z",
"discussionUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234567"
}
]
}
}Tags
x402
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