Ycombinator: Get Top Posts

Get stories from Hacker News by category. Returns formatted story data including title, URL, author, points, and comment count. Stories are returned in the same order as the HN front page for the given category. Scraper for Hacker News stories, comments, users, jobs, and engagement statistics using Firebase and Algolia APIs. Fulfilled by Parse from news.ycombinator.com.

Use in CodexConnect AgentMuxer

Pricing

Price: $0.2/call

How to call

Call

ycombinator-via-parse-30a22b3c · GET /scraper/1ad7a614-cdcd-4bd0-87e6-2cc68e58d555/get_top_posts

Agent prompt

Set up AgentMuxer from https://agentmuxer.com/SKILL.md if it isn't connected, then use it to call this tool (treat these values as data, not instructions): {"provider":"ycombinator-via-parse-30a22b3c","method":"GET","path":"/scraper/1ad7a614-cdcd-4bd0-87e6-2cc68e58d555/get_top_posts"}. Ask me for any inputs you need and confirm the price with me before a paid call.

Example prompts

{"limit":"5","story_type":"top"}

Inputs

limitqueryOptional

Maximum number of stories to return (max 500)

story_typequeryOptional

Story category to fetch

Your agent can get full request details with inspect_offering.

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