hn-search

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declared in 4.82.0

Hacker News story and comment search via Algolia. Returns titles, scores, comment counts, authors, and URLs for posts matching the query. Filter by type (story/comment) and date range (day/week/month/year/all). Sorted by relevance by default; use sort=date for newest-first. Useful for tech news, community sentiment, or discovering discussion threads about a topic.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "q": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Search query (required). Use quotes for exact phrases."
    },
    "sort": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Sort order — relevance (default) or date (newest first)."
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Content type to search. Default: story."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Number of results (1–20). Default: 10."
    },
    "date_range": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter results to a time window. Default: all."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

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