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Anysite pricing and alternatives: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 22 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.
Plan: Free trial one of Anysite's 7 plans
Call: POST /api/hackernews/items/search Anysite's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Anysite's 92 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Anysite searches Hacker News when you call the API.
  • All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 200 pages. Unused credits expire after 7 days.
  • One call. You send query and count to POST /api/hackernews/items/search. You can also send timeout, tag, sort, min_points, min_comments, created_after and created_before. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Anysite: Hacker News search API alternatives

The table starts with Anysite's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Anysite's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Anysite, $1,199 monthlyProLevelMax, top-upScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 packParse, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$4.996$3.00$3.333$10.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$1,199any amount$5$1,000
Enough for240,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for1,500 pages100,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyoneanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

Hacker News search 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-search.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.

  • Text
  • Links and tags
  • Engagement
  • Author
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 100
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 pitchFull-text search across Hacker News items. Filter by a single item type (story, comment, poll, job, show_hn, ask_hn), minimum score, minimum comment count, and a creation-time range. Sort by relevance or by date. Returns id, type, author, title, url, text, score, comment count, creation time, and the parent/story id for comments.
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 for200 pages
Expires7 days
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, count. Optional: timeout, tag, sort, min_points, min_comments, created_after, created_before
MethodPOST
Path/api/hackernews/items/search
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 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, title, link URL, score, comment count, author username, created at, text

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