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Hacker News API

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The Hacker News API is a read-only Firebase Realtime Database API provided by Y Combinator for fetching stories, comments, users, and top story feeds.

Base URL

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/

Core Endpoints

1. Item Details

Fetch specific items (stories, comments, jobs, polls) by numeric ID.

GET https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/44840013.json?print=pretty

2. Top & Category Stories

Fetch an array of up to 500 item IDs representing current rankings.

GET https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty

Other Feeds:

  • /v0/newstories.json
  • /v0/beststories.json
  • /v0/askstories.json
  • /v0/showstories.json
  • /v0/jobstories.json

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