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ScrapingIsNotACrime 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 ScrapingIsNotACrime's 6 plans
Call: GET /hackernews/items/{id} ScrapingIsNotACrime's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ScrapingIsNotACrime reads the comments on Hacker News when you call the API.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send id to GET /hackernews/items/{id}. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapingIsNotACrime: 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 planScrapingIsNotACrime, freeParse, free
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%
Billingfreefree
Pay$0$0
Enough for100 pages, onceabout 66 pages
Freshnesslivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

Hacker News comment API pricing: plans compared

Sources

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  2. scrapingisnotacrime.com/llms.txt
  3. scrapingisnotacrime.com/mcp
  4. scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
  5. scrapingisnotacrime.com/sdks/python
  6. scrapingisnotacrime.com/terms

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
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Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns a single item — story, comment, job, or poll — together with its full comment tree.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou may use the Service for any lawful purpose, including but not limited to: Market research and competitive analysis, Brand monitoring and social listening, Academic and journalistic research on publicly available data, Building data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics products, Training machine learning models on public data, Content aggregation and curation tools, Influencer discovery and audience analysis. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the retrieved data complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction [...] You must not use the Service to: Stalk, harass, or build surveillance tools targeting specific individuals, Compile data for spam, phishing, or unsolicited outreach campaigns, Attempt to access private, non-public, or login-gated content, Circumvent any platform's authentication or access controls, Resell API access, proxy our endpoints, or build a competing API service using our infrastructure, Collect data of minors for any commercial or profiling purpose, Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law, including data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, etc.), Automate bulk personal data harvesting for purposes of identity theft or fraud [...] Data retrieved through the Service may be subject to the intellectual property rights of the originating platform or content creator. You are responsible for ensuring your downstream use of retrieved data complies with applicable IP law and the terms of service of the source platform.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
The call
You sendid
MethodGET
Path/hackernews/items/{id}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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