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Get Hacker News item by ID

Fetch a single Hacker News item. Stories, comments, jobs, polls, and poll options share the same item shape.

Pricing — Free

This endpoint returns billing metadata with zero credits charged.

GET
/hacker-news/items/{id}

Authorization

bearerAuth
AuthorizationBearer <token>

UnifAPI API key. Provider credentials are managed by UnifAPI.

In: header

Path Parameters

id*integer

Hacker News item id.

Header Parameters

Unifapi-Version?string

Pin the API version an integration was built against (date-based, e.g. 2026-07-01). Omit to use the current version. Public URL paths stay stable and unversioned; breaking changes ship under a new dated version and are announced with Deprecation and Sunset response headers. The served version is echoed in every response's Unifapi-Version header. Policy: https://unifapi.com/versioning.md

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

curl -X GET "https://example.com/hacker-news/items/1"
{  "request_id": "string",  "data": {    "id": 0,    "deleted": true,    "type": "job",    "by": "string",    "time": 0,    "text": "string",    "dead": true,    "parent": 0,    "poll": 0,    "kids": [      0    ],    "url": "string",    "score": 0,    "title": "string",    "parts": [      0    ],    "descendants": 0  },  "billing": {    "credits_charged": 0,    "records_charged": 0,    "balance_remaining": 0,    "truncated_due_to_balance": true  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}