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Hn

by SiteCheck in News & content

x402 APIPassing, checked 1 h ago

Hacker News stories or comments from the Algolia search API: keyword search (q) or the current front page (mode=front), optionally since a date. Stories give title, URL, HN link, points, comments, author and time. Comments give their text (400 characters, HTML stripped) and the story title. Up to 50 results. Public data, no key.

GET
https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn
Price
$0.001
per call in USDC
Uptime
92.9%
last 30 days
Response time
804 ms
1.4 s slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
1 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

GET https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn

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.

GET https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn?limit=5&q=x402&type=story

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
limitstringNoMax results, 1-50, default 20
modestringNofront: the current front page (stories only)
qstringNoKeywords
sincestringNoYYYY-MM-DD: only items from this day on
typestringNostory (default) or comment

Example response

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

{
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T18:40:00.000Z",
  "query": {
    "mode": null,
    "q": "x402",
    "since": null,
    "type": "story"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "author": "example",
      "comments": 58,
      "createdAt": "2026-09-30T14:12:03Z",
      "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001234",
      "points": 142,
      "title": "Show HN: Pay-per-call APIs for AI agents with x402",
      "url": "https://example.com/x402-agents"
    }
  ],
  "returned": 1,
  "source": "Hacker News via the Algolia HN Search API (https://hn.algolia.com/api). Posts belong to their authors; attribution: Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com)",
  "total": 120
}

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 'https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn?limit=5&q=x402&type=story'

# 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 - 'https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn?limit=5&q=x402&type=story' \
  | 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%2Fapi.sitecheck-api.workers.dev%2Fapi%2Fhn
const res = await pay("https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn?limit=5&q=x402&type=story");
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.get("https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn?limit=5&q=x402&type=story")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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