Hacker News FAQs

Question 1

What is the Hacker News tool (mcp-hackernews)?

Accepted Answer

The mcp-hackernews tool is part of the Pipeworx open MCP gateway, designed to provide programmatic access for searching and retrieving stories and comments from Hacker News.

Question 2

What specific data can I retrieve using this tool?

Accepted Answer

You can retrieve the current list of top stories from Hacker News using `get_top_stories` and fetch specific items (like individual stories or comments) by their unique numeric ID using `get_item`.

Question 3

Is this a full Hacker News API wrapper?

Accepted Answer

It provides targeted functionalities for key Hacker News data access, specifically top stories and individual item retrieval, acting as an optimized web scraping and data collection interface rather than a full API wrapper.

Question 4

How do I integrate or start using this Hacker News tool?

Accepted Answer

You can quickly integrate it by adding its configuration URL to your MCP client config or by using the `npx pipeworx use hackernews` command via CLI, as detailed in the Quick Start guide.

Hacker News

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Hacker News

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