# SiteCheck, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/hn/search: Hacker News search API

> Full-text search of Hacker News stories or comments through the Algolia HN API: title, URL, author, points, comment count, time and HN link, comments include their text (max 500 characters). Filters: date range (from, to as YYYY-MM-DD), minimum points, sort by relevance or date. Covers the public HN index only, limit max 25.

SiteCheck's x402 pay per call plan for the Hacker News search API costs $2.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. SiteCheck's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run SiteCheck through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 90 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.925 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 58% of the 90 plans.
[Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Scrollhound's rate limit allows. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Scrollhound's $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.
[Algolia](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-hn-search
- [Hacker News search API: the 6 best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/hn/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1hn~1search
- Sold by: SiteCheck (https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $2.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Full-text search of Hacker News stories or comments through the Algolia HN API: title, URL, author, points, comment count, time and HN link, comments include their text (max 500 characters). Filters: date range (from, to as YYYY-MM-DD), minimum points, sort by relevance or date. Covers the public HN index only, limit max 25.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Business use only: SiteCheck is offered to businesses, developers and professionals for use in their trade, business or profession. It is not offered to consumers. [...] SiteCheck is not a consumer reporting agency. You must not use results as a factor in decisions about a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or similar purposes under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or comparable laws. Content in results that belongs to a source remains that source's. You are responsible for making sure that your use, storage and redistribution of results complies with the law (including copyright, database rights and data protection law) and with the terms of the original source. [...] Do not use SiteCheck for anything unlawful, to harass, track, stalk or discriminate against any person, to build profiles of individuals without a lawful basis, or to infringe anyone's rights. Do not attack, overload, scan for weaknesses or try to bypass payment, rate limits or other controls, and do not use the service to attack or overload third-party sources. Do not use SiteCheck if you are, or act for, a person subject to sanctions, or from a country or region where the service or the payment would be prohibited.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: type, from, to, minPoints, sort, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/hn/search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 acting for business purposes (not a consumer), not a person subject to sanctions or from a region where the service or the payment would be prohibited, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (x402)

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## SiteCheck's plans (1)

- [SiteCheck, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/hn/search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-hn-search/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## SiteCheck's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /api/search/hacker-news`: [SiteCheck, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/search/hacker-news](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-search-hacker-news/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/hn/search`: [SiteCheck, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/hn/search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/sitecheck/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-hn-search/llms.txt)

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## SiteCheck: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, $379 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/379-pack/llms.txt): $1.648 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/79-pack/llms.txt): $1.975 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Monocrawl, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/799-monthly/llms.txt): $1.998 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [API.SH, top-up from $15](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/api-sh/top-up-from-15/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

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