Api Endpoint

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

Payment pricing

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

Payment option 1
0.002 USDC
Atomic price: 2000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Payment option 2
0.002 USDC
Atomic price: 2000 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "2000",
    "payTo": "0xCb535d13C7fC5Fe6C2B88da3f3601B840CCaf8Bc"
  },
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
    "asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
    "amount": "2000",
    "payTo": "CGZW5WoP1eAZDZf4rjX2qiqZKr8czUEdq3VP1UE9JpSZ"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
413 ms
Average latency
719 ms
HTTP status
402
Last checked
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": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "GET"
      ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "examples": [
            "8863"
          ],
          "description": "HN item id (story)."
        },
        "limit": {
          "type": "string",
          "default": "100",
          "description": "Max comments (1-300)."
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "id"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type"
  ]
}