news

Fetch a specific Hacker News item (story, comment, job...

Fetch a specific Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll) by its numeric ID. Returns id, type, author, time (unix + ISO), title, URL, text, score, descendant count, kid count, parent (for comments), dead/deleted flags, canonical news.ycombinator.com URL.

get/api/news/hn-item

Request

  • Base URL: https://2s.io
  • URL: https://2s.io/api/news/hn-item
  • Auth: API key in header PAYMENT-SIGNATURE

Query parameters

idinteger required

Unique identifier of the record to fetch.

trial1

Try before you buy. Set to 1 for one free real call per endpoint per hour — no wallet or payment needed — to verify the endpoint before paying. Equivalent to sending the "X-2s-Trial: 1" request header. Listed only on operations that offer a trial; the others always answer 402.

Response

(unresolved $ref)

Changes

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