hacker-news-apilisted

# Hacker News API skill Read public Hacker News data as clean JSON. This Hacker News API skill returns a story, its full comment thread, a user's profile, or keyword search across the site — all at 1 credit, which makes it a good endpoint to smoke-test your key with. This skill wraps **4 live Hacker News endpoints** from the [ScraperSocial](https://scrapersocial.com) API. Public data only, returned as clean JSON. ## When to use this skill - A user pastes an HN link and wants the discussion summarised. - You are researching how a product, company or idea was received by that audience. - You want to track mentions of a term on Hacker News. ### Do not use this skill when - **You need the whole firehose or historical bulk.** The official Firebase API and the Algolia HN search API are free and better suited to bulk work. - **You need to post or vote.** Read-only. ## Setup ```bash export SCRAPERSOCIAL_KEY=sk_live_... # https://scrapersocial.com/app/keys ``` Signing up at [scrapersocial.com/signup](https://scrapersocial.com/signup) includes 100 free credits, no card required. ## Scripts | Script | What it does | Input | Credits | |---|---|---|---| | `get_profile.js` | Get Hacker News profile. | handle | 1 credit | | `search.js` | List Hacker News search. | query | 1 credit per story | | `get_story.js` | Get Hacker News story. | handle | 1 credit | | `get_story_comments.js` | List Hacker News story comments. | handle | 1 credit per comment | | `call_endpoint.js` | Call a