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Parse 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 3 plans by price. Parse's $300 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 comments: $0.90. Parse charges for each page of results. We count 50 comments on each page to get the $0.90 price.
Plan: Free one of Parse's 6 plans
Call: GET /scraper/1ad7a614-cdcd-4bd0-87e6-2cc68e58d555/get_post_comments Parse's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of Parse's 52 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Parse reads the comments on Hacker News when you call the API.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits, enough for about 66 pages.
  • One call. You send post_id to GET /scraper/1ad7a614-cdcd-4bd0-87e6-2cc68e58d555/get_post_comments. You can also send limit. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Parse: Hacker News comment API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments.

This planParse, freeScrapingIsNotACrime, freeAnyAPI, free trial key
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0
Enough forabout 66 pages100 pages, onceabout 33 pages, once
Freshnessliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bindanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

Hacker News comment API pricing: plans compared

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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 of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 4,155 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExtract nested comment trees from `get_post_comments` for NLP or sentiment analysis pipelines.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataIn connection with the Platform, you must not: Use the Platform in any way that violates applicable law or third-party terms of service, including to access, copy, or distribute third-party content without proper authorization. [...] Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any technical measures employed by third-party services (including login requirements, access controls, or CAPTCHAs), except where such measures are completed as presented in the ordinary course (e.g., solving a CAPTCHA), in compliance with law and the third-party service’s terms. [...] Generate automated traffic at a volume or rate that could reasonably be considered abusive, harmful, or a denial-of-service attack. [...] Reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works of, sell, rent, lease, loan, timeshare, distribute or otherwise exploit any portion of the Platform except as expressly authorized herein, without Parse’s express prior written consent. [...] Parse does not claim ownership of such third-party content, and you are solely responsible for ensuring that your access to and use of that content complies with applicable laws and the rights and terms of the relevant third party.
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits
Enough forabout 66 pages
Rate limit
Per second0.083
The call
You sendpost_id. Optional: limit
MethodGET
Path/scraper/1ad7a614-cdcd-4bd0-87e6-2cc68e58d555/get_post_comments
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

comment ID, commenter, text, created at, replies, post ID, results returned

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