Headers
Get your API keyAPI key (`sfk_...`)
Hacker News story id.
≥ 0 · ≤ 9007199254740991
Endpoint-specific response payload.
Whether the story was found, not found, or not a story.
one of: found, not_found, not_story
Story when lookupStatus is `found`; null when `not_found` or `not_story`.
Unique Hacker News story id.
≥ 0
Author username when present.
Creation time as an ISO-8601 timestamp.
Plain-text title when present.
Plain-text body when present (HTML stripped).
External story URL when present and publicly safe.
Score / votes when present.
Total comment count when present.
Top-level comment ids in ranked display order.
≥ 0
Whether the story is marked dead.
Whether the story is marked deleted.
Canonical news.ycombinator.com item URL.
Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.
Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.
min 1 chars
Credits charged for this request.
≥ 0
Public API version that served the response.
one of: v1
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/stories/8863" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Responses
Hacker News story lookup result.