# QuanticData, free: Hacker News search API

> A 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.

QuanticData's Hacker News search API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We rank 32 plans by price. [Scrappa's $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/500-pack/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/free
- Get it: https://quanticdata.io/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/hacker_news/run`
- API key: with the plan, on https://quanticdata.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://quanticdata.io/collectors/hacker-news-api/
- Sold by: QuanticData (https://quanticdata.io)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 100 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 second: 0.33

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, type, sort, max_results
- Method: POST
- Path: /scraper/collectors/hacker_news/run

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## QuanticData's plans (5)

- [QuanticData, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [QuanticData, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [QuanticData, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/19-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [QuanticData, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/79-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [QuanticData, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/299-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

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

- `POST /scraper/collectors/hacker_news/run`: [QuanticData, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/free/llms.txt)

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## QuanticData: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/socialcrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Anysite, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/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 2026-11-01.

- https://quanticdata.io/collectors/hacker-news-api/
- https://quanticdata.io/collectors/linkedin-profile-scraper-api/
- https://quanticdata.io/collectors/pricing/
- https://quanticdata.io/docs/
- https://quanticdata.io/pricing
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- https://quanticdata.io/terms