# ScrapeMole, pay as you go: Hacker News search API

> Full-text search over all Hacker News stories or comments, by relevance or date, with points, comment counts and links.

ScrapeMole's Hacker News search API on its Pay per call over x402 plan. It costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We 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](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/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go
- Get it: https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/hn/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeMole (https://scrapemole.pages.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Full-text search over all Hacker News stories or comments, by relevance or date, with points, comment counts and links.

## Data

- 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).

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: type, sort, days, minPoints, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/hn/search

## About the plan

- 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

## ScrapeMole's plans (1)

- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/hn/search`: [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole's APIs (11)

- [ScrapeMole: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: search autocomplete API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-post-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Hacker News comment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Telegram channel post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-post-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: YouTube channel video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [SocialCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/socialcrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.036 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/2430-yearly/llms.txt): $1.35 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/199-pack/llms.txt): $1.658 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 2026-11-05.

- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing