ScrapeMole pricing: Hacker News search API
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$1.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ScrapeMole through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.Half of the 52 plans we rank by price cost $2.577 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 75% of the 52 plans.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.
Plan: Pay per call over x402 ScrapeMole's only plan
Call:
GET / ScrapeMole's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News search API one of ScrapeMole's 11 APIs
- Web search API
- Bluesky profile API
- Search autocomplete API
- Hacker News search API
- News API
- Bluesky post API
- Hacker News comment API
- Company enrichment API
- Telegram channel post API
- YouTube channel video API
- Web scraping API
About this item
- Live. ScrapeMole searches Hacker News when you call the API.
- All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call for 1 request.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendv1/ hn/ search type,sort,days,minPointsandlimit. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query. - Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
ScrapeMole: Hacker News search API alternatives
ScrapeMole alternatives: every Hacker News search API plan compared
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| This planScrapeMole, pay as you go | SocialCrawl, free | Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly | Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly | ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $1.00 | $0.00 | $0.036 | $1.35 | $1.658 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | pay as you go | free | monthly | yearly | pay first |
| Pay | per call | $0 | Rp129,000 | $2,430 | $199 |
| Enough for | 1 call | 100 pages, once | 200,000 calls a month | 150,000 pages a month | 120,000 pages |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana | anyone 18 or over | anyone aged 18 or over, or with a guardian's consent | anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
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
| $ per 1,000 searches | $1.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Most per search | 50 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Full-text search over all Hacker News stories or comments, by relevance or date, with points, comment counts and links. |
|---|
| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites the data comes from. Do not use the API to build profiles of individuals, for spam, or to infringe copyright (transcripts are provided for analysis, search, accessibility and research, do not republish them as your own content). |
| Pay | per call |
|---|---|
| You get | 1 request |
| Enough for | 1 call |
| Batch | 1 |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | q. Optional: type, sort, days, minPoints, limit |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/hn/search |
| Plan | Pay per call over x402 |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana |
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold
search query, results returned, post ID, post type, title, link URL, score, comment count, permalink, author username, created at, text