Hacker News RSS
Overview
hnrss.org provides custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News.
The following feed types are available:
Firehose<br>New posts and comments as they arrive.
Searches<br>New posts and comments matching a given search term.
Replies<br>New comments in reply to a particular user or comment.
Best Comments<br>The best comments from across Hacker News.
Points<br>New posts with more than N points.
Activity<br>New posts with more than N comments.
Front Page<br>New posts as they appear on the front page.
Self-posts<br>New “Ask HN” and “Show HN” posts, along with polls.
Alternative<br>Follow Hacker News through some alternative homepages.
Jobs<br>New hiring posts made by YC startups along with comments from the monthly “Who is hiring?” threads.
Users<br>New posts and comments made by a given user.
Favorites<br>New posts that have been favorited by a particular user
Threads<br>New comments made in a given thread, optionally filtered by username.
Formats<br>In addition to RSS, all of the above are also available in Atom and JSON Feed formats.
Feeds
Each feed is valid RSS served over HTTPS.
Firehose Feeds
The “firehose” feeds contain all new posts and comments as they appear on Hacker News:
https://hnrss.org/newest<br>https://hnrss.org/newcomments
For just the posts that have appeared on the front page:
https://hnrss.org/frontpage
If the firehose feeds are a bit too noisy for you, read below on filtering them with the points and/or comments parameters.
Search Feeds
You can get a feed of new posts and/or comments containing keywords by using the q=KEYWORD parameter. For example:
https://hnrss.org/newest?q=Django<br>https://hnrss.org/newcomments?q=WordPress
If you want a single search feed but multiple keywords, separate the keywords with " OR ":
https://hnrss.org/newest?q=git+OR+linux
If your query contains reserved characters (especially the plus sign), you'll need to percent-encode those characters:
# This is the percent-encoded form of C++<br>https://hnrss.org/newest?q=C%2B%2B
Reply Feeds
Keep an eye on replies to your comments:
https://hnrss.org/replies?id=jerf
Use a comment ID to follow replies to a particular comment:
https://hnrss.org/replies?id=17752464
Best Comments
Recent, highly voted comments from across Hacker News:
https://hnrss.org/bestcomments
Some great stuff in here in threads you may not normally have opened. Definitely recommended.
Self Post Feeds
Ask HN, Show HN, and polls are available:
https://hnrss.org/ask<br>https://hnrss.org/show<br>https://hnrss.org/polls
Alternative Feeds
Hacker News Classic only counts votes from "early users" (accounts created before February 13, 2008):
https://hnrss.org/classic
Hacker News Best for top vote getters from the past few days:
https://hnrss.org/best
Hacker News Invited and Pool for reposted stories invited back by the mods and given a second chance:
https://hnrss.org/invited<br>https://hnrss.org/pool
Hacker News Active for posts with the most active, ongoing discussions:
https://hnrss.org/active
Hacker News Launches for "Launch HN" posts from YC affiliated startups:
https://hnrss.org/launches
Job Feeds
Job opportunities from YC funded startups:
https://hnrss.org/jobs
Top level comments in threads created by the whoishiring bot:
# Comments from "Who is hiring?" threads<br>https://hnrss.org/whoishiring/jobs
# Comments from "Who wants to be hired?" threads<br>https://hnrss.org/whoishiring/hired
# Comments from "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads<br>https://hnrss.org/whoishiring/freelance
# All of the above<br>https://hnrss.org/whoishiring
If you’re interested in something in particular, you can apply a q=KEYWORD parameter to only return relevant comments. For example, filter the top-level “Who is hiring?” comments to only those containing “React Native”:
https://hnrss.org/whoishiring/jobs?q=React+Native
User Feeds
If you don’t want to miss a post or comment by a given user, you can subscribe to that user’s feed:
https://hnrss.org/submitted?id=USERNAME # posts<br>https://hnrss.org/threads?id=USERNAME # comments<br>https://hnrss.org/user?id=USERNAME # everything
Favorite Feeds
Supply a username and get a feed of posts that have been "favorited" by that user:
https://hnrss.org/favorites?id=edavis
At the moment this only returns posts, not comments.
Note: This scrapes Hacker News first and then fetches from Algolia. For this reason, please be extra conservative with your refresh schedule. Thanks in advance.
Thread Feeds
A chronological feed of new comments on a particular post can be found at:
https://hnrss.org/item?id=THREAD_ID
You can filter this feed by author by providing the author parameter:
https://hnrss.org/item?id=THREAD_ID&author=USERNAME
With THREAD_ID the numerical ID found in the URL when viewing the comments page and USERNAME being the author's username.
Feed Options
You can modify any feed’s output using URL parameters. Multiple parameters can be applied at the same time by joining them with an ampersand.
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