Hacker News API

Name: Hacker News API
Availability: InStock

Tech news, links, and discussions

🔑 Auth: None 🔒 HTTPS: Yes 🌐 CORS: Enabled View Documentation

Live Technical Metrics

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Server-measured technical metrics for the Hacker News API
Uptime Status	⬜ Unknown — not yet probed
Server Latency	N/A
Hosting Server	Not disclosed
Content-Type	Not disclosed
Cache-Control	Not set
CORS Support	✅ Enabled — safe for browser fetch()
Authentication	✅ None required — call the API directly without a key
Category	News

Endpoint:: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Quick Integration Code

✅ No API key needed

fetch("https://github.com/HackerNews/API")
  .then(response => {
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
    return response.json();
  })
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(error => console.error("Request failed:", error));

import requests

url = "https://github.com/HackerNews/API"
headers = {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    # "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl -X GET "https://github.com/HackerNews/API" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "User-Agent: MyApp/1.0" \
  --max-time 10 \
  --silent | python3 -m json.tool

Sample JSON Response — News

News

{
  "status": "ok",
  "totalResults": 38420,
  "articles": [
    {
      "source": {
        "id": "bbc-news",
        "name": "BBC News"
      },
      "author": "BBC News",
      "title": "Tech giants announce new AI partnerships",
      "description": "Leading technology companies have announced a series of strategic AI collaborations.",
      "url": "https://bbc.co.uk/news/tech",
      "publishedAt": "2025-01-15T16:30:00Z"
    }
  ]
}