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Anysite pricing and alternatives: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.00per 1,000 commentsWe rank 6 plans by price. ProLevelMax's top-up costs the least per 1,000 comments: $0.0006. ProLevelMax charges for each page of results. We count 5,000 comments on each page to get the $0.0006 price.
Plan: Free trial one of Anysite's 7 plans
Call: POST /api/hackernews/items/comments Anysite's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of Anysite's 92 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Anysite reads the comments on Hacker News when you call the API.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 pages. Unused credits expire after 7 days.
  • One call. You send id and count to POST /api/hackernews/items/comments. You can also send timeout. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Anysite: Hacker News comment API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planAnysite, freeParse, freeProLevelMax, freeScrapingIsNotACrime, free
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0
Enough for1,000 pagesabout 66 pagesabout 666 pages100 pages, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction, who has not had a credit plan before, starting the trial takes a cardanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bindnew users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card requiredanyone

Hacker News comment API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. anysite.io/endpoints/business-data/profile-data
  2. anysite.io/pricing/api
  3. api.anysite.io/docs/api/index
  4. app.anysite.io/docs/api/post-api-hackernews-items-comments.md
  5. app.anysite.io/docs/errors-and-limits.md
  6. app.anysite.io/docs/legal/acceptable-use-policy.md
  7. app.anysite.io/docs/legal/data-processing-addendum
  8. app.anysite.io/docs/legal/privacy-policy
  9. app.anysite.io/docs/legal/terms-and-conditions.md
  10. app.anysite.io/docs/plans-and-credits.md

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Comment
  • Commenter
Price
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,259 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet the comments of a Hacker News thread by the numeric story or item id. Returns a flat list of comments, each with author, text, score, creation time, the parent id, and the ids of its direct child comments — letting you reconstruct the tree.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use datalawful, legitimate use only, no unsolicited mass messaging, and no reselling or sublicensing of the API, credits or resources without Anysite's written approval, you answer for your lawful rights to the data, the consents and data protection law, and the source sites' terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 pages
Expires7 days
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid, count. Optional: timeout
MethodPOST
Path/api/hackernews/items/comments
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction, who has not had a credit plan before, starting the trial takes a card
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

comment ID, text, created at, commenter, reply to, replies

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