Research

Get Hacker News Search Results

Retrieve up to 100 Hacker News search results from Algolia.

Setup

In Open Flow connect Hacker News and allow Proxy access, then run the workflow. In n8n activate the Hacker News node and run it manually. No search term or tag filter is configured.

Behavior

One manual run requests up to 100 results from the default Algolia search and returns the hits in their received order. Open Flow returns one array; n8n emits one item per hit. Results depend on the service’s default ranking and change over time. Empty results return an empty array in Open Flow. A failed request stops the run. Open Flow Code accepts inputs and outputs up to 1 MiB; a larger response fails rather than returning partial results.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Open Flow uses the Hacker News Provider Proxy for the empty query and 100-result request. The search Action requires a nonempty query and limits a page to 20 results.

Adapted from Hacker News search in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

The collection’s MIT notice is pinned at a later revision. This is the collection notice at that revision; it does not establish a separate original template author’s license. Our changes are listed above; see repository licensing.

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