Hacker News
Read Hacker News: items (stories, comments, jobs and polls), user profiles, the top/new/best/ask/show/job story lists, and full-text search across everything ever posted. The API is public — there is no credential to create.
OCNORA ships 7 typed Hacker News operations. Each node has a schema-driven form, input and output tables beside its settings, and is pre-flighted by Workflow Health before your first real run. Endpoints not covered by a typed node are called at https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0 through the HTTP node with the same credential.
Before you connect Hacker News
- Authentication
- No auth
- Credential
- no credential — the Hacker News API is public; the connection is a pair of hosts
- Connection test
- Available: the stored credential can be checked against the provider when you add it. This is not a record that a test was run or passed.
What you can do with Hacker News
Operations, grouped by what they do to your data.
Read and search 7
A sample Hacker News workflow
- 1A core triggerStart the run from a chat, form, manual, schedule, webhook, workflow trigger — no Hacker News trigger is needed.
- 2Get Itemhackernews.get_itemRead one Hacker News item by id — a story, comment, job, poll or poll option.
An outline built from this provider’s node contracts, not a recorded run. Each step’s output fields are available to the next in the field picker.
Every node below has a reference page: what it does, the connection it needs, its config fields with types, constraints and examples, and the shapes it emits.
Operations 7
- Get ItemRead one Hacker News item by id — a story, comment, job, poll or poll option.hackernews.get_item
- Get Max Item IdRead the largest item id on Hacker News, the starting point for walking backwards through everything.hackernews.get_max_item
- Get ThreadRead one item together with its whole comment tree already nested, from the Hacker News search index.hackernews.get_thread
- Get UpdatesRead the item ids and usernames that Hacker News changed most recently.hackernews.get_updates
- Get UserRead one Hacker News user's karma, bio and submission ids.hackernews.get_user
- List StoriesRead the item ids in one of Hacker News's story lists: top, new, best, ask, show or jobs.hackernews.list_stories
- SearchSearch every Hacker News story, comment, poll and job by text, tag or numeric condition.hackernews.search
Hacker News questions
- How does OCNORA authenticate with Hacker News?
- With a stored No auth credential, shaped no credential — the Hacker News API is public; the connection is a pair of hosts. A connection test can check it when you add it.
- What can I automate with Hacker News?
- 7 typed operations, each with a reference page listing its config fields and the shapes it emits.
- What if the Hacker News operation I need is not listed?
- Call https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0 from the HTTP node with the same credential, or describe the step to the AI builder, which asks our team for a typed node when one is missing.
- Are there templates that use Hacker News?
- Not yet. Start from a blank workflow, or describe the workflow to Build with AI.
- How are Hacker News calls controlled?
- Every call and every run step is audited, runs count against the execution budget, and Workflow Health pre-flights the workflow when you save it.
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See your first Hacker News workflow run.
Book a technical demo. We add the connection, pick a template or describe the workflow to Build with AI, and Workflow Health checks it before it runs.