# Pushbuild, free: Hacker News search API

> Search every Hacker News story and comment by keyword, date and points, or pull the live Top, New, Best, Ask, Show and Jobs feeds. Returns title, URL, author, points, comment count, text and dates. Official APIs, no blocks.

Pushbuild's Hacker News search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Pushbuild through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 51 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.653 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/pushbuild/free
- Get it: https://pushbuild.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.pushbuild.com/hacker-news/run`
- API key: with the plan, on https://pushbuild.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://pushbuild.com/apis/hacker-news.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Pushbuild (https://pushbuild.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Links and tags: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 423 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search every Hacker News story and comment by keyword, date and points, or pull the live Top, New, Best, Ask, Show and Jobs feeds. Returns title, URL, author, points, comment count, text and dates. Official APIs, no blocks.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: [...] we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to call our APIs with the key we issue to you, for your internal business purposes. [...] You alone are responsible for ensuring that your use of any output complies with all applicable laws, regulations, third-party terms of service, robots directives, intellectual property rights, privacy and data protection laws, and contractual obligations [...] You will not use any output, including any owner, property, name or address data, as a consumer report or as a factor in determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or tenancy [...] You will not, and will not let anyone else: (a) violate any law or third-party right, (b) reverse engineer or decompile the Site, or scrape or bulk-copy it, except through the APIs as licensed or as our robots.txt permits [...], (c) resell, sublicense, white-label or provide the APIs to third parties as a standalone service, unless we agree in writing, (d) circumvent any rate limit, key, access control or security measure, (e) interfere with or overload the Site, or introduce malware, (f) use the Site to build a competing product or service, (g) submit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or that you have no right to share, (h) misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or (i) submit protected health information, payment card data, government ID numbers, or other sensitive data [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1 a month

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: searchQueries. Optional: itemType, sort, fromDate, untilDate, minPoints, maxItemsPerQuery, maxItems
- Method: POST
- Path: /hacker-news/run

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post type, title, link URL, text, author username, score, comment count, created at, permalink, search query

## Pushbuild's plans (2)

- [Pushbuild, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/pushbuild/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Pushbuild, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/pushbuild/top-up/llms.txt): 100% complete

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

- `POST /hacker-news/run`: [Pushbuild, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/pushbuild/free/llms.txt)

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## Pushbuild: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Algolia, free, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [QuanticData, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SandBase, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/sandbase/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Octolens, free, 7-day free trial](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://pushbuild.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://pushbuild.com/apis/app/signup?api=google-ads-transparency&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://pushbuild.com/apis/hacker-news.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://pushbuild.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing