Hacker News Has a Free API — No Key, No Auth, No Limits
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Hacker News serves 10+ million pageviews per day. And they give away ALL their data through a free Firebase API. No API key. No rate limits. No authentication. Just raw JSON. The API Base URL: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/ That's it. No signup. No OAuth. No headers needed. Get the Top 500 Stories Right Now curl https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json | python3 -m json.tool | head -20 Returns an array of up to 500 item IDs, sorted by rank.