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QuanticData 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 32 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.
Plan: Pay as you go one of QuanticData's 5 plans
Call: POST /scraper/collectors/hacker_news/run QuanticData's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of QuanticData's 34 APIs

About this item

  • Live. QuanticData 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 $2 of credit a month.
  • One call. You call POST /scraper/collectors/hacker_news/run. Every input is optional: query, type, sort, max_results. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

QuanticData: Hacker News search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planQuanticData, freeScrapingIsNotACrime, freeSocial Fetch, freeSocialCrawl, freeAnysite, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 pages, once100 pages100 pages, once200 pages
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone 18 or overanyone 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

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. quanticdata.io/collectors/hacker-news-api/
  2. quanticdata.io/collectors/linkedin-profile-scraper-api/
  3. quanticdata.io/collectors/pricing/
  4. quanticdata.io/docs/
  5. quanticdata.io/pricing
  6. quanticdata.io/pricing/
  7. quanticdata.io/terms

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
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search200
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 100 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA Hacker News API that answers two questions from one endpoint: what is on the front page right now, and what HN has ever posted about a term. Leave the query empty for the live front page, or search the full archive by relevance or by date — either way you get one row per story with points, author, comment count, the outbound link and the discussion permalink.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou agree to use the Service only for lawful collection of publicly accessible data, and not to: access data behind a login, paywall or authentication you are not authorised to use, or bypass access controls or CAPTCHAs on accounts, collect or process personal data without a lawful basis, or in breach of privacy laws, infringe intellectual property, breach a site's binding contractual terms where those apply to you, or facilitate fraud, spam, malware or attacks, resell or redistribute raw access in a way that circumvents our billing, or exceed documented rate limits deliberately, use the Service to harm, harass or surveil individuals. You are solely responsible for the targets you choose, the data you collect and how you use it.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$2 a month
Rate limit
Per second0.33
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: query, type, sort, max_results
MethodPOST
Path/scraper/collectors/hacker_news/run
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

result position, post ID, title, link URL, score, author username, comment count, created at, text, permalink, tags, link domain, updated at, post type, results returned, amount charged

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