Api Endpoint

social-testnet.scrapemole.workers.dev

Use to read the discussion on a Hacker News post: returns the story (title, URL, points, author, time) and up to N comments in thread order with depth, author, time and plain text (HTML stripped). Good for summarising community reaction to a launch. For the live HN front page, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and job lists use ScrapeMole Pulse: https://pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/news/hn.

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Offering

Provider: social-testnet.scrapemole.workers.dev
Method: GET
Offering type: Api Endpoint
Transport type: http
Category: Social Intelligence
Delivery: Not provided
Pricing model: Not provided
x402 version: 2

Endpoint context

URL: https://social-testnet.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/hn/thread
MIME type: application/json
First seen: 2026-10-16T02:01:31.612Z
Last seen: 2026-10-23T22:50:51.880Z
Tags: None supplied

Website

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1: 0.002 USDC
Atomic price: 2000 · Network: eip155:84532 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact

Raw x402 terms

[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:84532",
    "asset": "0x036CbD53842c5426634e7929541eC2318f3dCF7e",
    "amount": "2000",
    "payTo": "0x45f709d6cA15Cb101Aa1989A70C0534A604a9383"
  }
]

Observed health

Status: Degraded
Latest latency: 63 ms
Average latency: 322 ms
HTTP status: 404
Last checked: 2026-11-02T08:08:31.720Z
Reachability: 100% over 14 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
    "id": "8863"
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string",
          "const": "http"
        },
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "id"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "id": {
              "type": "string",
              "examples": [
                "8863"
              ],
              "description": "HN item id (story)."
            },
            "limit": {
              "type": "string",
              "default": "100",
              "description": "Max comments (1-300)."
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "output": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "example": {
          "type": "object"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}