Hacker News

List a Hacker News feed

List a Hacker News feed by type (top, new, best, ask, show, or jobs).

GET/v1/hackernews/feeds/{feed}
1credit
x-api-key*stringheader

API key (`sfk_...`)

Parameters
3
feed*stringpath

Hacker News feed: top, new, best, ask, show, or jobs.

one of: top, new, best, ask, show, jobs

limitintegeroptionalquery

Maximum items to hydrate (1–50). Default: 30.

≥ 1 · ≤ 50

offsetintegeroptionalquery

Zero-based offset into the official feed id list.

≥ 0 · ≤ 500

Response fields
30

Endpoint-specific response payload.

datafeed
string

Requested feed name.

one of: top, new, best, ask, show, jobs

Hydrated feed items in official ranking order.

dataitems[]id
integer

Unique Hacker News item id.

≥ 0

dataitems[]type
string

Item type.

one of: story, comment, job, poll, pollopt, unknown

dataitems[]author
stringnullable

Author username when present.

dataitems[]createdAt
stringnullable

Creation time as an ISO-8601 timestamp.

dataitems[]title
stringnullable

Plain-text title when present.

dataitems[]text
stringnullable

Plain-text body when present (HTML stripped).

dataitems[]url
stringnullable

External URL when present and publicly safe.

dataitems[]score
integernullable

Score / votes when present.

dataitems[]commentCount
integernullable

Total comment count when present (stories/polls).

dataitems[]parentId
integernullable

Parent item id for comments/pollopts.

≥ 0

Child item ids in ranked display order when present. Some list endpoints omit children and return an empty array.

dataitems[]childIds[]
integeroptional

≥ 0

dataitems[]dead
boolean

Whether the item is marked dead. Some list endpoints omit this signal and return false.

dataitems[]deleted
boolean

Whether the item is marked deleted. Some list endpoints omit this signal and return false.

dataitems[]itemUrl
string

Canonical news.ycombinator.com item URL.

Feed pagination metadata.

datapageoffset
integer

Request offset.

≥ 0

datapagelimit
integer

Request limit.

≥ 0

datapagereturned
integer

Number of hydrated items returned.

≥ 0

datapagetotalIds
integer

Length of the upstream feed id array.

≥ 0

datapagehasMore
boolean

True when more ids remain after this offset window.

datapagedroppedCount
integer

Ids in the window that could not be hydrated (deleted/missing).

≥ 0

Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.

metarequestId
string

Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.

min 1 chars

metacreditsCharged
integer

Credits charged for this request.

≥ 0

metaversion
string

Public API version that served the response.

one of: v1

metacached
booleanoptional

True when served from shared response cache. Credits still apply (full endpoint price); Age header may be present.

Code example

curl "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/hackernews/feeds/top" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Responses

Hydrated feed page.