Hacker News

Hacker News

Access Hacker News stories, comments, users, and real-time data through the official Firebase API. Retrieve top stories, browse different categories, get user profiles, and build comment trees.

Triggers & Actions

Use Hacker News as a trigger to kick off a workflow, or use it as an action to do something automatically in your workflow.

Triggers

No triggers available

Actions

  • Get Item

    Retrieve a specific Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll, etc.) by its ID.

  • Get User

    Retrieve information about a specific Hacker News user by their username.

  • Get Top Stories

    Retrieve up to 500 top stories from Hacker News front page (includes jobs).

  • Get New Stories

    Retrieve up to 500 newest stories from Hacker News.

  • Get Best Stories

    Retrieve up to 500 best stories from Hacker News.

  • Get Ask HN Stories

    Retrieve up to 200 latest Ask HN stories from Hacker News.

  • Get Show HN Stories

    Retrieve up to 200 latest Show HN stories from Hacker News.

  • Get Job Stories

    Retrieve up to 200 latest job stories from Hacker News.

  • Get Max Item ID

    Get the current largest item ID on Hacker News, which represents the most recently created item.

  • Get Changed Items and Profiles

    Retrieve items and profiles that have been changed/updated recently on Hacker News.

  • Get Comments Tree

    Retrieve and build a complete comment tree for a story or item, with optional depth limiting.