Hacker News MCP Server

MCPOpen SourceMIT45.2

by pskill9 • Analytics & Monitoring

An MCP server that scrapes Hacker News and returns structured story data (titles, URLs, points, authors, timestamps, comment counts, rank) for agents and tools.

Example Use Cases

1
Up-to-date Hacker News story listings (top, new, ask, show, jobs) in structured JSON to display or process.
2
Detailed metadata (points, author, time, comment counts, rank) for ranking, summarization, alerts, or analytics.
3
Integrate Hacker News content into chatbots or automation workflows (e.g., Claude) with configurable limits and robust error handling.

Description

This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server parses HTML from news.ycombinator.com and provides structured JSON for different Hacker News story types (top, new, ask, show, jobs). It supports configurable limits on the number of stories returned and returns metadata such as title, URL, points, author, time, commentCount, and rank. The server includes validation and error handling and is designed to integrate with Claude and other MCP-compatible agents to fetch HN content programmatically.

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Security

Scanned 1 month(s) ago

Risk Level

MINIMAL

Read-only data retrieval, no side effects

Trust Score

D44/100

4/17 checks passed

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Quick Stats

Service TypeMCP

Pricing ModelFree

Capabilities0 Tools / 0 Prompts / 0 Resources

Ownerpskill9

CategoryAnalytics & Monitoring

DependenciesStandalone