HackerNews/API
Documentation and Samples for the Official HN API observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4353
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 609
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
13276 stars · 759 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Official documentation and samples for the Hacker News public API, hosted on Firebase. It describes how to access HN items (stories, comments, jobs, polls) and user data as JSON over versioned URIs.
Use cases
- fetch hacker news stories and comments programmatically
- build a hacker news client app
- track new posts on hacker news in real time
- get comment threads for a hacker news article
- retrieve user profiles and submissions from hacker news
When to choose
- you want official, near-real-time access to Hacker News data
- you can use Firebase client libraries for efficient event-driven updates
- you need free API access with no rate limit
When to avoid
- you need a convenient high-level API - the v0 API is a raw dump of in-memory structures requiring manual tree traversal
- you need backward-compatible guarantees across versions
- you want filtering or querying features - only basic item/user endpoints exist
Facets
service · maturity stable
http-client json web-scraping apis developer-tools social-media cross-platform hacker-news firebase public-api documentation rest-api web-server android ios
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/HackerNews/API · fetched 2026-08-28 · b18a63ba29db
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| HackerNews/API | main | 32 |
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