# Hacker News Search — Stories, Comments & Developer Sentiment An ai tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/ryanclinton/hackernews-search ## What you need An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key. ## Inputs - `query` (string, required): Search Query (e.g. "artificial intelligence") - `mode` (string): Mode (e.g. "search") - `outputLevel` (string): Output Level (e.g. "basic") - `searchType` (string): Search Type (e.g. "relevance") - `tags` (string): Content Type - `author` (string): Author The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them. ## Price 5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities ## Run it 1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Hacker%20News%20Search%20%E2%80%94%20Stories%2C%20Comments%20%26%20Developer%20Sentiment with Authorization: Bearer . Take the result named "Hacker News Search — Stories, Comments & Developer Sentiment"; it carries a proxy_route. 2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header. 3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md