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Alternatives to hackernews-frontpage

hackernews-frontpage is an agent skill by garrytan: Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts). If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match hackernews-frontpage and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. hn-summarize leads the list (repository has 10.3K stars). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with hackernews-frontpage.

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hackernews-frontpage

Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).

12 alternatives

Ordered by how closely each matches hackernews-frontpage (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.

  1. 1
    hn-summarize

    ykdojo

    Fetch and summarize Hacker News / hckrnews.com top stories, articles, and their comment threads.

    • Repository has 10.3K stars

    ★ 10.3KLast active Aug 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  2. 2
    hackernews-search

    setwhite

    搜索 Hacker News 帖子与热门。

    • More recently active (freshness A)
    • Supports Python

    ★ 38Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  3. 3
    Hacker News

    wanikua

    Search and browse Hacker News with API access to stories, comments, users, and hiring threads.

    • Repository has 2.7K stars
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 2.7KLast active Mar 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  4. 4
    hn-api

    mikymod

    Query the Hacker News APIs (official Firebase + Algolia search) to fetch stories, comments, users, live feeds, and search results.

    • More recently active (freshness A)
    • Supports Python and bash

    Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  5. 5
    hackernews-user

    useshowrun

    Fetch Hacker News user profiles, stories, comments, and authenticated views (threads, favorites, upvoted, hidden) from the terminal.

    • Supports JavaScript

    ★ 6Last active May 5, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  6. 6
    hackernews-stories

    useshowrun

    Browse Hacker News feeds, view posts with comment trees, vote, favorite, comment, and submit stories.

    • Supports JavaScript

    ★ 6Last active May 5, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  7. 7
    browser-use

    browser-use

    Direct browser control via CDP for web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, screenshots, and site/app work.

    • More recently active (freshness A)

    ★ 119KLast active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  8. 8
    social-data

    Bitterbot-AI

    Search and fetch social media data from Twitter/X, Reddit, and Hacker News.

    • More recently active (freshness A)

    ★ 2.5KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  9. 9
    aihot

    Virxact

    查询 AIHOT（aihot.news）的中文 AI 资讯。用户问今天或最近 AI 圈发生了什么、AI 新闻和 AI 日报、大模型与 AI 产品发布、OpenAI／Anthropic／Google 等公司或某个 AI 话题的最新消息、当前最热的 AI 事件及来龙去脉、AI 模型排行、Codex 额度重置，或其它…

    • More recently active (freshness A)
    • Supports bash

    ★ 21.6KLast active Oct 1, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  10. 10
    golden-rss

    yusufkaraaslan

    Use when testing the rss golden build

    • More recently active (freshness A)

    ★ 15.2KLast active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  11. 11
    golden-rss-empty

    yusufkaraaslan

    Use when testing the empty rss golden build

    • More recently active (freshness A)

    ★ 15.2KLast active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  12. 12
    seo-firecrawl

    AgriciDaniel

    Full-site crawling, scraping, and site mapping via Firecrawl MCP.

    • More recently active (freshness A)

    ★ 20.1KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

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