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hn-search
InactiveTool of The Stall
declared in 4.97.1
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
}Parent server
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