---
title: HackerNews
description: Basic client for the official Hacker News API.
---

Note that the [HN Algolia API](https://hn.algolia.com/api) seems to no longer be available, so we can't add search without quite a bit of overhead.

- package: `@agentic/hacker-news`
- exports: `class HackerNewsClient`, `namespace hackernews`
- env vars: `HACKER_NEWS_API_USER_AGENT` (_optional_)
- [source](https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/agentic/blob/main/packages/hacker-news/src/hacker-news-client.ts)
- [HN api docs](https://github.com/HackerNews/API)

## Install

<CodeGroup>
```bash npm
npm install @agentic/hacker-news
```

```bash yarn
yarn add @agentic/hacker-news
```

```bash pnpm
pnpm add @agentic/hacker-news
```

</CodeGroup>

## Usage

```ts
import { HackerNewsClient } from '@agentic/hacker-news'

const hn = new HackerNewsClient()
const res = await hn.getTopStories()
```
