# Hacker News is now a data source in Anysite — Anysite Blog > Anysite now covers Hacker News: items, full comment trees, front-page lists, full-text search and user profiles. URL: https://anysite.io/blog/hacker-news-api-endpoints-launch/ Canonical: https://anysite.io/blog/hacker-news-api-endpoints-launch/ Language: en Generated: 2026-10-31 ## Key facts about Anysite (as of 2026-10-31) - Anysite gives AI agents and apps live web data — over an MCP server, a REST API and an open-source CLI — and builds ready-made and custom datasets (https://anysite.io/datasets/). - Catalog: 900+ sources, 5,000+ endpoints (https://anysite.io/endpoints/). - Pricing: MCP plans from $30/month, API plans from $49/month. 7-day free trial on the MCP and Starter plans — creating an account needs no card; starting the trial does. 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Anysite now covers Hacker News as a first-class source, launching with five endpoints that return assembled, structured JSON, with API-key authentication and nothing to set up on the Hacker News side. ## What the official API leaves to you Hacker News exposes a Firebase API, and it is genuinely minimal by design. You get raw item ids and have to fetch each one; there is no full-text search; the front-page lists are arrays of ids with no content attached; and a comment thread is a tree you reassemble yourself, one recursive request at a time. For a quick script that's fine. For anything continuous — monitoring, research, enrichment — you end up rebuilding the same plumbing every time. The Anysite endpoints return the assembled objects directly, so the plumbing is already done. ## The five endpoints - **Items** — `POST /api/hackernews/items` returns a single item (story, comment, job, or poll) by its numeric id. - **Comment tree** — `POST /api/hackernews/items/comments` returns the full nested comment tree of a thread in one call, instead of a recursive id-chase. - **Front-page lists** — `POST /api/hackernews/items/lists` returns the top, new, best, ask, show, and job lists with full item data, not just ids. - **Search** — `POST /api/hackernews/items/search` runs full-text search across stories, comments, jobs, and polls — the piece the official API simply doesn't have. - **Users** — `POST /api/hackernews/users` returns a user profile by username: karma, account age, and submission history. Each endpoint's credit price, with fields and examples, lives on the [Hacker News endpoint page](https://anysite.io/endpoints/hackernews/). ## What it unlocks **Launch monitoring.** Watch the `show` and `new` lists and a search for your product or category, and pull the comment tree the moment a relevant thread appears. A Show HN about you — or a competitor — surfaces in minutes instead of whenever someone happens to send it to you. **Developer sentiment.** Search a tool or company across all of Hacker News and read the full threads behind the hits. The discussion under an "Ask HN: what do you use for X" is some of the most candid tooling intelligence on the internet, precisely because nobody is performing for a vendor. **Audience and influencer mapping.** Resolve a username to karma, account age, and submission history to find and qualify the people who actually shape technical conversations — then follow what they post and comment on. **Trend and content signals.** The front page and top search results are a live demand map. The questions getting attention and the launches getting upvotes are the posts, pages, and features worth your time. ## A two-call example Pull today's front page with item data, then grab the full comment tree of the top story: ``` import requests BASE = "https://api.anysite.io" headers = {"access-token": "YOUR_API_KEY"} front = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/hackernews/items/lists", headers=headers, json={"list_type": "top", "count": 30}).json() top = front[0] thread = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/hackernews/items/comments", headers=headers, json={"id": top["id"], "count": 100}).json() ``` No Hacker News account, no Firebase project, no recursive fetching, no rate-limit bookkeeping — just the assembled data. ## Get started Hacker News joins the growing list of sources Anysite covers as structured endpoints, alongside [Reddit](https://anysite.io/endpoints/reddit/) and the rest. See the [Hacker News endpoint page](https://anysite.io/endpoints/hackernews/) for the full reference, or start with a free trial and pull your first front page in a single call. // Keep reading ## Related posts [Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read Medium data API: posts, publications, authors, and tag feeds Anysite Medium API: search posts, fetch full article text, pull author profiles and publication data — 10 endpoints, no Medium account required. New sources · Social media data](https://anysite.io/blog/medium-api-launch/) [Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read Stocktwits data API: sentiment series, trending symbols, and community streams Anysite Stocktwits API: daily bullish/bearish sentiment series, community message streams, trending symbols, and user profiles — 7 endpoints. 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