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Vextorium Hacker News Search
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Vextorium Hacker News Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).
Search Hacker News stories or comments by relevance or date, returning points, comment count, author, and links.
Price / call$0.003
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How this service works
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Output
Returns a JSON object with the query, sort method, content type, total result count, and an array of matching items — each containing the story title, external URL, HN post URL, author username, points, comment count, and publication timestamp.
Example use cases
Tech trend research via HN
“Search Hacker News for the 15 most relevant stories about 'AI agents' and give me each one's title, author, points, and link to the HN thread.”
Latest HN discussion on a launch
“Find the 5 most recent Hacker News stories mentioning 'Cloudflare', sorted by date, so I can see what the community has been saying about them lately.”
Community sentiment on a library
“Pull the top 10 Hacker News comments mentioning 'htmx', sorted by relevance, and show me the author, text snippet, and points for each.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.vextorium.com/v1/hackernews-search?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need structured, filterable access to Hacker News content — specifically when you want to retrieve stories or comments by keyword with metadata like points and comment counts. Prefer this over generic web search when the task is specifically about the HN community's discussions, reactions, or coverage of a topic.
Side effects
- Empty results if query matches no indexed HN content
- Invalid enum value for sort or type fields returns a 400 error
- Limit exceeding allowed maximum may be capped or rejected
- Algolia upstream outage causes delayed or failed responses
- Very broad queries may return low-relevance results
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sort | string | |
| type | string | |
| limit | integer | |
| query | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"sort": "relevance",
"type": "story",
"count": 10,
"query": "x402",
"total": 9694,
"source": "Hacker News (Algolia HN Search API)",
"results": [
{
"url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/",
"text": null,
"title": "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402",
"author": "soheilpro",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746914",
"points": 355,
"comments": 251,
"created_at": "2026-07-01T13:59:13Z"
},
{
"url": "https://www.x402.org/",
"text": null,
"title": "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments",
"author": "thm",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347335",
"points": 228,
"comments": 147,
"created_at": "2025-09-23T14:14:46Z"
}
]
}
}Tags
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