Hacker News Search

Hacker News Search

Search Hacker News via Algolia API (free, no auth required).

API Endpoint

https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search

Search Stories

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query={keyword}&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50" | \
  jq '.hits[] | {
    title: .title,
    url: .url,
    points: .points,
    comments: .num_comments,
    author: .author,
    date: .created_at,
    hn_url: ("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=" + (.objectID | tostring))
  }'

Search by Date (Recent)

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query={keyword}&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50" | \
  jq '.hits[] | {
    title: .title,
    url: .url,
    points: .points,
    comments: .num_comments,
    date: .created_at
  }'

Filter by Time Range

Last 7 days:

WEEK_AGO=$(date -d '7 days ago' +%s)
curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query={keyword}&tags=story&numericFilters=created_at_i>${WEEK_AGO}&hitsPerPage=50"

Tags

• story - Main stories
• comment - Comments
• ask_hn - Ask HN posts
• show_hn - Show HN posts
• front_page - Front page items

Output Format

## Hacker News

| # | Title | Points | Comments | Date |
|---|-------|--------|----------|------|
| 1 | [Title](hn_url) | 500 | 200 | 2026-02-01 |
| 2 | [Title](hn_url) | 300 | 150 | 2026-02-01 |

### Top Discussions
1. [Title](url) - 500 points, 200 comments
   > Top comment preview...

Rate Limits

• No authentication required
• 10,000 requests/hour