Hacker News Search API (Algolia)
by hn.algolia.com
News feeds and APIs
Added on November 1st, 2026
Checked and working on November 1st, 2026
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What it does
Algolia's Hacker News Search API adds full-text search to Hacker News: find stories, comments and polls by keyword, sorted by relevance or by date, and filter by tags, author, points or creation date. Items and user profiles are available too. Use it to follow mentions of a product or topic on Hacker News. Call the REST endpoints with GET and get JSON. Free, no key needed, up to 10,000 requests an hour per IP address.
At a glance
- API key
- Not needed · More APIs with no key
- Pricing
- Free, no key needed, up to 10,000 requests an hour per IP address.
- From the browser
- Yes (CORS)
- Formats
- JSON
- Interface
- REST, HTTP-GET
- Provider
- hn.algolia.com
- Last checked
- Working on November 1st, 2026
More information: https://hn.algolia.com/api
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Example request
curl
curl 'https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=hello&hitsPerPage=1'JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=hello&hitsPerPage=1");
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=hello&hitsPerPage=1",
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())The JavaScript works in a web page as well as in Node.js 18 or newer.