Returns one page of stories from a Hacker News list: top, new, best, ask, show or jobs. Each story carries its id, title, url, score, author, ISO 8601 creation time, descendant count, kid ids, type and optional text. Fields Hacker News does not provide are omitted. Pagination is explicit: pages are never fetched for you, so one request performs exactly one list lookup plus the item lookups for the requested page. A page past the end of the list is a valid empty answer.
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Endpoint
Parameters
Start with the required fields, then add optional filters only when your use case needs them.
Runnable path
This endpoint has no required query parameters.
3 optional filters available.
string
Optional
Story list: top, new, best, ask, show or jobs. Defaults to top.
top
integer
Optional
1-based page number. Defaults to 1.
1
integer
Optional
Stories per page, 1-30. Defaults to 20.
20
Request Examples
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
$response = Http::timeout(30)
->withHeaders(['x-api-key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'])
->get('https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20');
if ($response->successful()) {
echo $response->body();
} else {
echo "Error: " . $response->status();
}
const options = {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
}
};
fetch('https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20', options)
.then(response => {
if (!response.ok) {
throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
}
return response.text();
})
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
const axios = require('axios');
const options = {
method: 'GET',
url: 'https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20',
headers: {
x-api-key: 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
}
};
try {
const response = await axios(options);
console.log(response.data);
} catch (error) {
console.error('Error:', error.message);
}
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
uri = URI.parse("https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
begin
response = http.request(request)
puts response.body
rescue => e
puts "Error: #{e.message}"
end
import http.client
import json
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("scrappa.co")
headers = {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
}
try:
conn.request("GET", "/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20", headers=headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
finally:
conn.close()
import requests
headers = {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
}
try:
response = requests.get('https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20', headers=headers)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.text)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.Response;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ApiExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20")
.addHeader("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")
.build();
try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
if (response.isSuccessful()) {
System.out.println(response.body().string());
} else {
System.out.println("Error: " + response.code());
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
}
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io/ioutil"
)
func main() {
client := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20", nil)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error creating request:", err)
return
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error making request:", err)
return
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error reading response:", err)
return
}
fmt.Println(string(body))
}
#!/bin/bash
curl -X GET \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
"https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20"
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
static async Task Main()
{
using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE");
try
{
var response = await client.SendAsync(new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20"));
var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(content);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Error: {ex.Message}");
}
}
}
import axios from 'axios';
async function run(): Promise<void> {
try {
const response = await axios({
method: 'GET',
url: 'https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
},
});
console.log(response.data);
} catch (error) {
console.error('Error:', error);
}
}
void run();
use reqwest::Client;
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let client = Client::new();
let response = client
.get("https://scrappa.co/api/hackernews/stories?type=top&page=1&per_page=20")
.header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")
.send()
.await?;
println!("{}", response.text().await?);
Ok(())
}
Response Schema
Example response fields are illustrative; inspect the JSON before integrating.
Example response fields
Scan these fields before integrating.
success
data
meta
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"stories": [
{
"id": 50068437,
"title": "DishwasherBench \u2013 Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?",
"url": "https://github.com.composo-ai/DishwasherBench",
"score": 62,
"by": "mlukewizard",
"created_at": "2026-10-13T08:24:06Z",
"descendants": 30,
"kids": [
50068920,
50068438,
50070342,
50069632,
50069250
],
"type": "story"
}
],
"page": 1,
"per_page": 20,
"total": 500,
"has_more": true
},
"meta": {
"endpoint_family": "stories",
"billable": true
}
}
Errors
Handle these documented responses before retrying or showing customer-facing failures.
Hacker News Upstream Unavailable
The upstream service is temporarily unavailable. Please retry shortly.
{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE",
"message": "Hacker News upstream is temporarily unavailable."
},
"meta": {
"billable": false,
"retryable": true
}
}Parser Drift
Hacker News returned a response shape this parser does not recognise. The incident has been reported; retrying will return the same result.
{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "PARSER_DRIFT",
"message": "Hacker News response shape changed unexpectedly. The incident has been reported."
},
"meta": {
"billable": false,
"retryable": false
}
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