Connect Hacker News to AI agents

Connect Hacker News to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or other AI agents for your entire team. Metorial security, governance, observability, and gives your team a unified Magic MCP url to connect.

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Supported Tools

Tools5Triggers3

get_user

Get User

Retrieve a Hacker News user profile by username. Returns karma, creation date, bio, and recent submission IDs. Usernames are case-sensitive.

search

Search

Full-text search across Hacker News content powered by Algolia. Search stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, and jobs. Supports filtering by content type, author, date range, and minimum points. Results can be sorted by relevance or date.

list_stories

List Stories

Retrieve a ranked list of Hacker News stories by category. Supports top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job listings. Returns story IDs with optional full story details. Up to 500 stories are available for top/new/best, and up to 200 for ask/show/job.

get_item

Get Item

Retrieve a Hacker News item by its unique ID. Items include stories, comments, jobs, Ask HN posts, polls, and poll options. Returns the full item data including author, score, text content, URL, and child comment IDs.

get_comment_tree

Get Comment Tree

Retrieve the full nested comment tree for a Hacker News story in a single request via Algolia. Unlike the Firebase API which requires recursive fetching of each comment, this returns the entire comment hierarchy at once.

More integrations teams use with Hacker News

Discord

Send, edit, and delete messages in channels. Manage servers (guilds), channels, roles, members, invites, webhooks, threads, scheduled events, auto moderation rules, audit logs, application commands, and custom guild emojis. Add or remove users, assign roles, kick or ban members, and receive supported message, guild, channel, member, and inbound webhook triggers.

Dataforseo

Retrieve practical DataForSEO API v3 data for SEO, SEM, ecommerce, business listings, Google Play apps, content analysis, and AI optimization. Supports Google/Bing/Yahoo/YouTube organic SERP live search, Google Ads keyword metrics, DataForSEO Labs keyword and domain intelligence, backlinks, OnPage audits and results, domain analytics, Google Shopping and Amazon Merchant tasks, Business Listings and Google Reviews, Google Play App Data tasks, and AI keyword, LLM mentions, and live LLM response benchmarking.

Firecrawl

Scrape, crawl, search, map, parse, monitor, and extract data from websites and files with Firecrawl v2. Convert pages into markdown, HTML, screenshots, links, summaries, structured JSON, answers, highlights, and media URLs with browser automation, batch jobs, agent jobs, browser sandbox sessions, content monitors, and account usage visibility.

Linkedin

Authenticate LinkedIn members with OpenID Connect, fetch the authenticated member profile, and create self-serve LinkedIn shares with text, article links, and uploaded images. Organization and Community Management workflows should move to a separate slate because LinkedIn restricts combining those products in one app.

Webscrapingai

Scrape and extract data from any website with automatic proxy rotation, headless browser rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and retries. Fetch full rendered HTML or plain text from web pages. Extract specific page elements using CSS selectors. Ask natural language questions about webpage content and receive AI-generated answers. Extract structured JSON fields from pages using AI-powered field descriptions. Execute custom JavaScript on loaded pages to interact with dynamic content. Emulate desktop, mobile, or tablet devices. Route requests through datacenter or residential proxies with geo-targeting support. Send custom headers and cookies for authenticated scraping. Check account credit balance and usage limits.

Exa

Search the web using AI-native neural and keyword search methods. Extract full text, highlights, and summaries from web pages. Find similar pages based on a given URL. Get AI-generated answers to questions with citations. Automate in-depth web research and receive structured results with citations. Build and manage Websets—structured collections of web entities found, verified, and enriched by search agents. Import data into Websets, enrich items with additional structured data, schedule monitors for continuous updates, and export results to CSV, JSON, or XLSX. Configure webhooks for Webset lifecycle events.

Technical notes for Hacker News

Read and search Hacker News content including stories, comments, jobs, polls, and user profiles. Retrieve curated story listings such as top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job stories. Look up user profiles with karma, submission history, and bios. Perform full-text search across all content with filtering by type, author, date range, and point thresholds. Track recently changed items and profiles via the updates feed. Subscribe to real-time changes on items, story rankings, and profiles via Firebase listeners. All access is read-only with no authentication required.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Hacker News to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. Can Metorial connect Hacker News to AI agents?
    Yes. Metorial connects AI agents to Hacker News through a governed integration layer, so teams can use the provider while keeping access controlled and observable.
  2. Metorial is MCP compatible and lets teams expose approved provider tools to MCP-capable agents and clients through a controlled access layer.
  3. Metorial applies policies across users, groups, providers, agents, and individual tools, then records the context around every agent interaction.
  4. Yes. Metorial records provider activity so teams can inspect tool calls, troubleshoot integrations, and give security teams the visibility they need.