getComment
Get a single comment by ID
LABSCO SUMMARY
The whole of Hacker News, comment trees included, without scraping it.
getStoryWithComments and getCommentTree are the reason to install this rather than fetch pages: the discussion arrives structured instead of as HTML someone has to unpick. Search runs against Algolia's index, so it reaches back through the archive rather than only what is on the front page today.
What it is
A server over the Hacker News API and Algolia's HN search, exposing stories, comments, users and search as nine tools.
What you get
- search across stories and comments, filterable by type and paged
- getStories by type — top, new, best, ask, show or job
- getStory for one story, and getStoryWithComments for the story with its thread attached
- getComment for a single comment, getComments for a story's comments, and getCommentTree for the full hierarchy
- getUser for a profile — karma, creation date, about text — and getUserSubmissions for what they have posted
Requirements
Nothing — no account, no key. Runs under Node.
Setup effort
One command — npx -y @devabdultech/hn-mcp-server
USE CASES
01
Finding what the community actually said about a tool
Search for it, then pull the discussion under the story that matters as a structured tree.
02
Catching up on a topic across the archive
Search stories and comments together, paging through more than the first handful of hits.
03
Reading today's front page as data
Fetch the top or new stories in one call and work from the list.
04
Checking who you are reading
Pull the commenter's profile and their recent submissions before weighing what they said.
9 tools
Counted once with only startup setup. Other versions, modes or optional credentials may expose a different list.
getComments
Get comments for a story
getCommentTree
Get a comment tree for a story
getStories
Get multiple stories by type (top, new, best, ask, show, job)
getStory
Get a single story by ID
getStoryWithComments
Get a story with its comments
getUser
Get a user profile by ID
getUserSubmissions
Get a user's submissions
search
Search for stories and comments on Hacker News
BEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
9 tools when we connected.
Requires
npx on PATH
CONTEXT COST
Light Standing cost
Rated by the size of the 9 tool definitions that ride along on every turn, not by how many there are
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
Add the block to your client, or run the command directly.
Server setup
Configuration file
JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"hn-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@devabdultech/hn-mcp-server"
]
}
}
}npx
TERMINAL
npx -y @devabdultech/hn-mcp-server
