Hacker News

Fetch top Hacker News stories and user details with HackerNewsTools’ get_top_hackernews_stories and get_user_details functions.

HackerNewsTools enable an Agent to get top stories and user details from Hacker News.

Prerequisites

The following example requires the anthropic library.

uv pip install -U anthropic

Example

The following agent will write a report on trending startups and products from Hacker News.

cookbook/91_tools/hackernews_tools.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.anthropic import Claude
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools

agent = Agent(
    model=Claude(id="claude-sonnet-4-5"),
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
    markdown=True,
)

agent.print_response(
    "Write a report on trending startups and products.", stream=True
)

Toolkit Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
enable_get_top_stories	bool	True	Enables fetching top stories.
enable_get_user_details	bool	True	Enables fetching user details.
all	bool	False	Enables all functionality.
timeout	int	30	Per-request HTTP timeout in seconds.

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
get_top_hackernews_stories	Retrieves the top stories from Hacker News. Parameters include num_stories to specify the number of stories to return (default is 10). Returns the top stories in JSON format.
get_user_details	Retrieves the details of a Hacker News user by their username. Parameters include username to specify the user. Returns the user details in JSON format.

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