news.ycombinator.com API: get_post_comments
news.ycombinator.com via Parse · news_media
Get nested comment threads for a specific Hacker News post. Returns recursively nested comments with author, text, and depth. Uses Algolia items API. Scraper for Hacker News stories, comments, users, jobs, and engagement statistics using Firebase and Algolia APIs. Fulfilled by Parse from news.ycombinator.com.
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- social-media
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.06 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- news_media
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/1ad7a614-cdcd-4bd0-87e6-2cc68e58d555/get_post_comments
- Interface artifact
- sha256:766fdc83fe0aca34f903355ad8c9e593efc1e003e1c93eca15e45a9ec72c90bf
- Manifest digest
- sha256:406ed21635aa270137e66f7c9af624c518786b66066dd3b7f5c0e04f64dd2a43
Request fields
- limit (integer): Maximum number of top-level comments (max 50)
- post_id (integer, required): HN post ID to fetch comments for
Example queries
- {"limit":"3","post_id":"1"}