Hacker News
Hacker News currently lives behind /research, not a dedicated top-level SDK namespace.
When to use it
- launch reaction tracking
- builder and engineering discussion
- product-market fit signal checks
- early technical feedback on tools, infra, and AI products
Example
Source-filtered Hacker News research
```bash
curl https://api.faircompany.ai/v1/crawl/research \
-X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer fc_live_xxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"query": "browser automation launch discussion",
"sources": ["hackernews"],
"limit": 10
}'
```
```ts
const results = await fc.research({
query: "browser automation launch discussion",
sources: ["hackernews"],
limit: 10,
});
console.log(results.all.map((item) => item.url));
```
```python
results = fc.research(
"browser automation launch discussion",
sources=["hackernews"],
limit=10,
)
print([item.url for item in results.all])
```
```json
{
"tool": "faircrawl_research",
"arguments": {
"query": "browser automation launch discussion",
"sources": ["hackernews"],
"limit": 10
}
}
```
Notes
- the current HN source uses public search results instead of a dedicated typed scraper namespace
- if you need a specific Hacker News thread URL,
/web/scrapeis still the right route