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Which endpoint answers it

Endpoint: hackernews.item (1 credit)
Template: news.ycombinator.com/item?id={id}
Parameters: id=8863

A Hacker News item (Algolia, with points and counts).

What it returned

My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

Canonical fields returned
Field	Value
`content.id`	8863
`content.title`	My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive
`content.url`	http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html
`content.createdAt`	2007-04-04T19:16:40Z
`author.username`	dhouston
`engagement.likes`	104

Returned as null (the source does not publish it, so nothing is guessed): content.text, computed.engagement_rate, computed.language

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Credits1 when run
Calls1
API time1,207 ms

The API call behind this

curl -G "https://api.onekey.dev/v1/lookup" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863" \
  -H "x-api-key: $ONEKEY_KEY"

Raw response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "content": {
      "id": "8863",
      "title": "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive",
      "url": "http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html",
      "text": null,
      "createdAt": "2007-04-04T19:16:40Z"
    },
    "author": {
      "username": "dhouston"
    },
    "engagement": {
      "likes": 104
    },
    "computed": {
      "engagement_rate": null,
      "language": null
    }
  },
  "metadata": {
    "platform": "hackernews",
    "endpoint": "item",
    "cached": false,
    "credits_charged": 1
  },
  "error": null
}

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How it works

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