fulcrum: "1.0"
name: hackernews_item
description: Get details of a Hacker News story, comment, or user. Use with hackernews_stories to get full story details.
schema:
input:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
description: Item ID (story, comment, poll, job)
examples:
- 8863
required:
- id
output:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
type:
type: string
enum: [story, comment, job, poll, pollopt]
by:
type: string
description: Username of author
time:
type: integer
description: Unix timestamp
title:
type: string
url:
type: string
text:
type: string
description: HTML content (for comments/text posts)
score:
type: integer
descendants:
type: integer
description: Comment count
kids:
type: array
items:
type: integer
description: Comment IDs
providers:
primary:
service: rest
cost_per_call: 0
timeout: 10
config:
base_url: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com
path: /v0/item/{id}.json
method: GET
headers:
Accept: "application/json"
cache:
strategy: exact
ttl: 300
auth:
required: false
type: none
metadata:
category: news
tags:
- hackernews
- tech
- news
cost_category: free
execution_time: instant
read_only: true
docs: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
