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ScrapingIsNotACrime 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 9 plans by price. AnyAPI's pay as you go plan costs the least per 1,000 searches: $1.50.
Plan: Free one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 6 plans
Call: GET /hackernews/search ScrapingIsNotACrime's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ScrapingIsNotACrime 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 100 credits once, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send q to GET /hackernews/search. You can also send limit and page. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapingIsNotACrime: Hacker News search API alternatives

The table starts with ScrapingIsNotACrime's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to ScrapingIsNotACrime's.

ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 packAnyAPI, free trial keyParse, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.658$0.00$10.00
Completeness100%100%100%
Billingpay firstfreemonthly
Pay$199$0$1,000
Enough for120,000 pagesabout 33 calls, once100,000 calls a month
Freshnessliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

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 2026-10-31.

  1. scrapingisnotacrime.com/docs
  2. scrapingisnotacrime.com/llms.txt
  3. scrapingisnotacrime.com/mcp
  4. scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
  5. scrapingisnotacrime.com/sdks/python
  6. scrapingisnotacrime.com/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
Perpage of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: GET /instagram/profile/{username} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/contact · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline/latest · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/highlights · GET /instagram/highlights/{highlightId} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/media/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/download · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/id · GET /instagram/media/id/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/reels/{shortcode} · GET /tiktok/profile/{username} · GET /tiktok/video/{videoId} · GET /youtube/channel/{handle}/videos · GET /appstore/search · GET /appstore/reviews · GET /github/profiles/{handle} · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/followers · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/following · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/repositories · GET /github/repositories · GET /github/trending/repositories · GET /hackernews/feeds/{feed} · GET /hackernews/items/{id} · GET /hackernews/users/{username} · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/submissions · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/comments · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle} · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle}/posts · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle} · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle}/videos · GET /linktree/profiles/{handle}
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFull-text search across Hacker News stories.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou may use the Service for any lawful purpose, including but not limited to: Market research and competitive analysis, Brand monitoring and social listening, Academic and journalistic research on publicly available data, Building data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics products, Training machine learning models on public data, Content aggregation and curation tools, Influencer discovery and audience analysis. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the retrieved data complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction [...] You must not use the Service to: Stalk, harass, or build surveillance tools targeting specific individuals, Compile data for spam, phishing, or unsolicited outreach campaigns, Attempt to access private, non-public, or login-gated content, Circumvent any platform's authentication or access controls, Resell API access, proxy our endpoints, or build a competing API service using our infrastructure, Collect data of minors for any commercial or profiling purpose, Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law, including data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, etc.), Automate bulk personal data harvesting for purposes of identity theft or fraud [...] Data retrieved through the Service may be subject to the intellectual property rights of the originating platform or content creator. You are responsible for ensuring your downstream use of retrieved data complies with applicable IP law and the terms of service of the source platform.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
The call
You sendq. Optional: limit, page
MethodGET
Path/hackernews/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, title, link URL, text, permalink, score, comment count, author username, created at, total results

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