# ScrapingIsNotACrime, free: Hacker News comment API

> Returns a single item — story, comment, job, or poll — together with its full comment tree.

ScrapingIsNotACrime's Hacker News comment API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 comments. It returns both key fields we check: Comment and Commenter.
We rank 3 plans by price. [Parse's $300 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/parse/300-monthly/llms.txt) 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free
- Get it: https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingisnotacrime.com/v1/hackernews/items/{id}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/docs
- Sold by: ScrapingIsNotACrime (https://scrapingisnotacrime.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Comment: ✓
- Commenter: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 comments: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: GET /instagram/profile/{username} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/contact · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline/latest · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/highlights · GET /instagram/highlights/{highlightId} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/media/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/download · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/id · GET /instagram/media/id/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/reels/{shortcode} · GET /tiktok/profile/{username} · GET /tiktok/video/{videoId} · GET /youtube/channel/{handle}/videos · GET /appstore/search · GET /appstore/reviews · GET /github/profiles/{handle} · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/followers · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/following · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/repositories · GET /github/repositories · GET /github/trending/repositories · GET /hackernews/feeds/{feed} · GET /hackernews/search · GET /hackernews/users/{username} · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/submissions · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/comments · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle} · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle}/posts · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle} · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle}/videos · GET /linktree/profiles/{handle}

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns a single item — story, comment, job, or poll — together with its full comment tree.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit

## The call

- You send: id
- Method: GET
- Path: /hackernews/items/{id}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## ScrapingIsNotACrime's plans (6)

- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/5-pack/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/25-pack/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/79-pack/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/199-pack/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## ScrapingIsNotACrime's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /hackernews/items/{id}`: [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt)

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## ScrapingIsNotACrime: Hacker News comment API alternatives

- [Parse, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/parse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/docs
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/llms.txt
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/mcp
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/sdks/python
- https://scrapingisnotacrime.com/terms