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Scrapio pricing and alternatives: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$11.60per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 35 plans we rank by price cost $2.658 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is cheaper than 22% of the 35 plans.Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.
Plan: Starter one of Scrapio's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/hacker-news/search Scrapio's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Scrapio's 51 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $29 a month for 25,000 credits, enough for 2,500 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v1/hacker-news/search. You can also send tags, since, sort, page and hits_per_page. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrapio: Hacker News search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. We also show the UnifAPI plan. Its price is farther from this plan's price.

This planScrapio, $29 monthlySocialCrawl, £15 packAnysite, $200 monthlyParse, $1,000 monthlySocial Fetch, pay as you goUnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go
$ per 1,000 searches$11.60$8.001$10.00$10.00$14.00$50.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthlypay as you gopay first
Pay$29£15$200$1,000per callany amount
Enough for2,500 pages a month2,500 pages20,000 pages a month100,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownliveliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contractanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bindanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone

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. docs.scrapio.dev/api-reference/hacker-news/search.md
  2. docs.scrapio.dev/llms.txt
  3. docs.scrapio.dev/rate-limits
  4. scrapio.dev
  5. scrapio.dev/pricing
  6. scrapio.dev/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$11.60
Perpage of 100
Billingmonthly
$ a month$29
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 169 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFull-text keyword search over Hacker News stories/comments via Algolia's HN Search API -- the brand/keyword-monitoring use case.
Data
Use dataTerms of Service, 4. Acceptable Use: "You may only scrape or fetch content from websites you own, have explicit permission to access, or where doing so complies with applicable law and the target site's terms. You must not use the Service to collect personal data without a lawful basis under applicable privacy law (e.g. GDPR, CCPA). You must not use the Service to bypass authentication, circumvent paywalls, or engage in credential stuffing. You must not resell, sublicense, or white-label the Service without our written consent. You must not use the Service in a way that damages, disables, or impairs our infrastructure or that of third parties. Automated bulk collection of personal data, medical records, financial data, or government data is prohibited without our express written approval.", 7. Intellectual Property: "All content fetched through the Service remains the property of its respective owners.", 8. Data and Privacy: "You are solely responsible for the data you collect through the Service and for complying with all applicable data protection laws."
Plan
Pay$29
You get25,000 credits a month
Enough for2,500 pages a month
Expiresat the end of the billing cycle
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: tags, since, sort, page, hits_per_page
MethodGET
Path/v1/hacker-news/search
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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