Hacker News
Fetches structured data from Hacker News, including top, new, ask, show, and job stories.
About
Hacker News provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to retrieve stories from Hacker News. It parses the HTML from news.ycombinator.com, offering structured data for various story types such as top, new, ask, show, and jobs. It's configurable to limit the number of stories returned, and provides clean error handling and validation, facilitating easy integration with tools like Claude.
Key Features
- Fetches top, new, ask, show, and job stories from Hacker News.
- Provides structured data including titles, URLs, points, authors, timestamps, and comment counts.
- Allows configurable limit on the number of stories returned.
- Offers clean error handling and validation.
- Includes a 'get_stories' tool with customizable parameters.
- 16 GitHub stars
Use Cases
- Integrating Hacker News data into Claude workflows.
- Fetching and displaying Hacker News stories in other applications.
- Analyzing trends and topics on Hacker News.
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