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ScrapeMole Social – Lobsters Hottest Stories
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ScrapeMole Social – Lobsters Hottest Stories is a paid API for AI agents from social.scrapemole.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).
Returns the current hottest/trending stories from the Lobsters tech news aggregator
Price / call$0.002
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Pay-per-call public social data for agents: Telegram public channel posts; Mastodon hashtag timelines; Bluesky post search, profiles and author feeds; Hacker News full-text search and threads with comments; Lobsters hottest stories. Official public APIs only, no logins, no private data. USDC via x402, no accounts; failed calls are never charged. 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://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/terms
Output
A JSON object containing the list type ('hottest'), a count of stories, and an array of story objects each with a URL, title, score, tag array, and comment count — representing the current top-trending content on Lobsters.
Example use cases
Daily developer news briefing
“Give me a rundown of today's hottest Lobsters stories — titles, scores, and tags — so I can catch up on what the tech community is reading right now.”
Monitor trending Rust or systems programming content
“What are the top stories on Lobsters at the moment? I want to see if anything tagged with Rust or systems programming is trending today.”
Curate content for a tech newsletter
“Pull the current Lobsters hot list for me — I need titles, URLs, and scores to pick the best links for this week's developer newsletter.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/lobsters/hot?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need the current trending stories from Lobsters specifically — a curated, developer-focused tech news community. Prefer it over Hacker News endpoints when you want a smaller, higher signal-to-noise community feed with topic tags. No API key or account needed; pay-per-call via USDC means no subscription overhead. Ideal for agents that need lightweight, on-demand polling of what's hot in the developer/programming world without scraping.
Side effects
- Payment verification failure — if the USDC payment cannot be confirmed, the call is rejected and no charge is made
- Upstream Lobsters API unavailable — returns an error if lobste.rs is down or unreachable
- Rate limiting or network timeout from the upstream source
- Malformed payment header — x402 scheme mismatch results in 402 rejection
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| required | string | |
| properties | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"list": "hottest",
"count": 1,
"stories": [
{
"url": "https://…",
"tags": [
"rust"
],
"score": 40,
"title": "…",
"comments": 12
}
]
}
}Tags
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