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post/hackernews/v1/item1 credit

single item by id (story/comment/job/poll/pollopt) — all official fields + time_iso/kids_count/hn_url; hydrate_kids=resolve top-level comments

Working example

Parameters

idrequired

HackerNews item id (story/comment/job/poll/pollopt) — the digits in an item URL (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...).

hydrate_kidsoptional

If true, resolve the item's top-level comments into full objects instead of bare ids.

kids_limitoptional

When hydrate_kids=true, how many top-level comments to resolve (1-100). (1–100)

request preview

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/hackernews/v1/item \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id":"8863"}'

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