Duoleads pricing: Hacker News comment API
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GET / v1/ hackernews/ thread Duoleads's only call for this APIAbout this item
- A copy at most 5 minutes old. You get comments from Duoleads's copy of Hacker News.
- Both fields on our checklist. Comment and Commenter.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
idtoGET /. You can also sendv1/ hackernews/ thread limitandcursor. The call returns the story's comments. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Duoleads: Hacker News comment API alternatives
Duoleads alternatives: other Hacker News comment API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| This planDuoleads, pay as you go | ScrapeMole, pay as you go | Genexxis, pay as you go | Social Fetch, $14 pack | Parse, $100 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 comments | $1.25 | $0.0067 | $0.167 | $0.42 | $1.20 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay as you go | pay as you go | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | per call | per call | per call | $14 | $100 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 1 page | as many as you pay for | about 333 pages | about 1,666 pages a month |
| Freshness | 5 minutes | live | 5 minutes | live | live |
| Who can get it | businesses, developers and automated agents acting in the course of a trade, business, craft or profession, with a USDC wallet on Base | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base, with no account or API key, paying each call (x402) | anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it | anyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Comment
- Commenter
| $ per 1,000 comments | $1.25 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 8 |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Hacker News Comments & Threads: one Hacker News story or comment by id or news.ycombinator.com URL with its direct replies (up to 8 per call, next_cursor for more), deleted and dead replies skipped. |
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| Freshness | 5 minutes |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Subject to payment and to clause 6, the Operator grants you a non-exclusive licence, to the extent the Operator holds any rights, to use the response you receive for your own lawful purposes. [...] You are responsible for complying with the terms of the platform the data came from (for example the terms of X, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky or Hacker News) whenever you store, publish, combine or otherwise reuse the data. You may not resell or redistribute the responses in bulk as a dataset or as a substitute for the Service. [...] You warrant that you use the Service only for a lawful purpose, such as social listening, brand and market research, trend and topic analysis, journalism or research, and that you have a lawful basis for it. In particular, you may not: (a) use the Service or any output to profile, track, monitor, locate, contact, harass, target, stalk or discriminate against an individual, or to make decisions about an individual (for example about employment, credit, insurance, housing, immigration or law enforcement), (b) use any output to infer or derive special categories of personal data (racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data, health, sex life or sexual orientation) or data about criminal convictions, about anyone, (c) use any output to train, fine-tune or evaluate an artificial intelligence or machine learning model on individuals' data, or sell or supply it to anyone for that purpose, (d) re-identify a person from aggregate or pseudonymous output, or combine outputs into a profile or dossier of a person, (e) look up private individuals who are not public figures, except where you have a lawful basis to do so and the lookup is limited to what is necessary, (f) use the Service in breach of any applicable law or sanctions measure, or on behalf of any person subject to one, (g) attempt to obtain a response without paying, replay or reuse a payment authorisation, or otherwise circumvent metering, (h) send traffic whose volume or pattern degrades the Service for others, or systematically extract the Service's outputs to build a substitute for it or a bulk archive of a platform, (i) misrepresent the Service, the Operator, our data provider or any platform as endorsing you, your product or your outputs. |
| Pay | per call |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | id. Optional: limit, cursor |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/hackernews/thread |
| Plan | x402 |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | businesses, developers and automated agents acting in the course of a trade, business, craft or profession, with a USDC wallet on Base |
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold
platform, fetched at, post ID, post title, post score, post comment count, post link URL, post created at, post author, comment ID, comment URL, created at, text, commenter, reply to, replies, next cursor, request ID