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Hacker News Search

by AgentUtility.ai in News & content

x402 APIFailing, checked 1 h ago

Search Hacker News for startup news, YC news, Show HN launches, and founder discussion through the Algolia HN index. Send a query, then filter stories, comments, or polls by author, minimum points, and ISO-8601 date range; sort by relevance or newest first. Returns titles, authors, points, comment counts, timestamps, URLs, and matching text. Use it as a startup news search API, YC news search, Show HN tracker, or developer news feed.

POST
https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search
Price
$0.001
per call in USDC
Uptime
76.0%
last 30 days
Response time
204 ms
4.4 s slowest 5%
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How to call it

POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search

Each call costs $0.001 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search
content-type: application/json

{
  "limit": 5,
  "query": "rust async"
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
authorstringNoFilter to a specific HN username (e.g. 'pg', 'dang').
limitnumberNoMax hits to return. 1-20. Default 10.
min_pointsnumberNoMinimum points (upvotes) floor. Comments don't have points; using this implicitly filters to stories.
querystringYesFree-text search query (matches title, body, author, URL).
sincestringNoLower bound on created_at — ISO8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) or full timestamp.
sortstringNo'relevance' (default, popularity-weighted) or 'date' (most-recent-first). One of: relevance, date.
typestringNoRestrict to a single HN item type. Omit to include all types. One of: story, comment, poll.
untilstringNoUpper bound on created_at — ISO8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) or full timestamp.

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "query": "rust async",
  "results": [
    {
      "author": "boats",
      "comments_count": 137,
      "created_at": "2024-03-15T14:22:01.000Z",
      "id": "39800000",
      "points": 412,
      "title": "Async Rust in three parts",
      "url": "https://without.boats/blog/async-rust-3/"
    }
  ],
  "source": "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search",
  "total_hits": 4567
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.001.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"limit":5,"query":"rust async"}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"limit":5,"query":"rust async"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.001 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.001" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.001 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx402.agentutility.ai%2Fhacker-news-search&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "limit": 5,
    "query": "rust async"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.001 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.001"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search",
        json={
            "limit": 5,
            "query": "rust async",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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