Hacker News API

📸 Real response, captured by us

Not a mockup — this is what Hacker News API actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 798 ms).

{
  "by": "dhouston",
  "descendants": 71,
  "id": 8863,
  "kids": [
    9224,
    8917,
    8884,
    8887,
    8952,
    8869,
    8873,
    8958,
    8940,
    8908,
    9005,
    9671,
    9067,
    9055,
    8865,
    8881,
    8872,
    8955,
    10403,
    8903,
    8928,
    9125,
    8998,
    8901,
    8902,
    8907,
    8894,
    8870,
    8878,
    8980,
    8934,
    8943,
    8876
  ],
  "score": 104,
  "time": 1175714200,
  "title": "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive",
  "type": "story",
  "url": "http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html"
}

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call Hacker News API — pick your weapon.

// Hacker News API — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# Hacker News API with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# Hacker News API from your terminal
curl "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json"

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