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Scrappa 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 22 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.
Plan: Free one of Scrappa's 11 plans
Call: GET /api/hackernews/search Scrappa's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Scrappa's 75 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.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month.
  • One call. You send query to GET /api/hackernews/search. You can also send type, sort, page, per_page, date_from and date_to. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrappa: Hacker News search API alternatives

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

Scrappa, $1,000 packAnyAPI, pay as you goScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 packProLevelMax, $10,000 packAnysite, $1,199 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.20$1.50$1.658$2.609$4.996
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingpay firstpay as you gopay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$1,000per call$199$10,000$1,199
Enough for5,000,000 callsas many as you pay for120,000 pagesabout 3,833,333 calls240,000 pages a month
Freshnessunknownunknownlivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list, paying from a USDC wallet on Base (x402) or a Tempo wallet (MPP)anyoneanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoicedanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction

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. scrappa.co/.well-known/x402
  2. scrappa.co/apis/linkedin-api
  3. scrappa.co/docs/error-handling
  4. scrappa.co/docs/hackernews-api/hackernews_search
  5. scrappa.co/legal/terms-of-service
  6. scrappa.co/pricing

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
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 2,423 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFull-text search over Hacker News stories and comments through the Algolia HN Search API. Each result carries id, title, url, author, points, comment count, creation date, and the story or comment text with a plain-text variant for comments. Sort by relevance or date, and narrow with unix timestamp date bounds. Pagination is explicit and 1-based, has_more comes from the upstream page count. A query with no hits is a valid empty answer and is billed as one.
Data
Use dataSubject to these Terms, we permit you to use API output lawfully obtained through your account in your own commercial or non-commercial applications, websites, and reports. This includes storing and caching output, displaying it to your users, linking to original sources, combining and comparing it with other data, and performing analytics, including AI-assisted analysis. [...] Reselling API output as a standalone dataset or data feed, or reselling access to the Service, requires our written authorization. [...] Public availability and delivery through the API do not, by themselves, establish a right to reuse content. [...] You are responsible for establishing a lawful basis for your use, obtaining any permissions required, and complying with applicable laws and third-party terms that legally apply to your use. This includes any applicable attribution, retention, deletion, redistribution, and AI or text-and-data-mining restrictions. [...] You agree not to: Use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any laws, Violate or infringe upon the rights of others, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers connected to the Service, Resell or redistribute API output outside the application uses permitted by Section 8 without our written authorization, Use the Service to scrape or collect data in violation of third-party terms of service that legally apply to your use, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: type, sort, page, per_page, date_from, date_to
MethodGET
Path/api/hackernews/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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