Hacker News
Get Hacker News updates
Get recently changed Hacker News item ids and usernames.
GET/v1/hackernews/updates
1credit
Headers
Get your API keyx-api-key*stringheader
API key (`sfk_...`)
Response fields
11
Endpoint-specific response payload.
Recently changed item ids.
datachangedItemIds[]
integeroptional
≥ 0
Recently changed profile usernames.
datachangedUsernames[]
stringoptional
min 1 chars
datafetchedAt
string
ISO-8601 timestamp when this snapshot was fetched.
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/updates" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Responses
Changed item ids and usernames.