CLI
Search, inspect stories, browse live lists, and work with user activity from your terminal.
hn-get
Hacker News data for terminals, agents, apps, and feed readers.
hn-get puts one tested Hacker News client behind five useful interfaces. JSON is the default, limits are bounded, and linked articles are never crawled behind your back.
MCP
Run a local stdio server with npx hn-get mcp, or connect to the remote Streamable HTTP endpoint.
HTTP API and RSS
Use the same core data pipeline from an app, script, feed reader, or automation.
Hacker News Firebase supplies live items, users, and official lists. Algolia supplies search, comments, and historical activity. A small parser covers the few useful public HN lists that have no API.