Hacker News Front Page Scraper
garrytan/gstack
Scrapes the Hacker News front page and returns the top 30 stories as JSON with rank, title, link, points and comment count.
Browses and interacts with Hacker News via cli-web-hackernews — top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, story details with comments, search, user profiles, and (with login) upvoting…
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Install Hackernews CLI
$ npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB hackernews-cli --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli .claude/skills/hackernews-cli && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "hackernews-cli" agent skill from https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli into .claude/skills/hackernews-cli/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hackernews-cli", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cliType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB hackernews-cli --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli .agents/skills/hackernews-cli && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "hackernews-cli" agent skill from https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli into .agents/skills/hackernews-cli/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hackernews-cli", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB hackernews-cli --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli .cursor/skills/hackernews-cli && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "hackernews-cli" agent skill from https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli into .cursor/skills/hackernews-cli/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hackernews-cli", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git --path .claude/skills/hackernews-cli--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB hackernews-cli --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli .gemini/skills/hackernews-cli && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hackernews-cli" agent skill from https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli into .gemini/skills/hackernews-cli/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hackernews-cli", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB hackernews-cliInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli .github/skills/hackernews-cli && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hackernews-cli" agent skill from https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli into .github/skills/hackernews-cli/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hackernews-cli", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB hackernews-cli --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli .opencode/skills/hackernews-cli && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hackernews-cli" agent skill from https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli into .opencode/skills/hackernews-cli/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hackernews-cli", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
hackernews-cli- GitHub stars
- 231
- Token cost
- ~809 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 282 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 42
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Browses and interacts with Hacker News via cli-web-hackernews — top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, story details with comments, search, user profiles, and (with login) upvoting…
- The user asks about Hacker News
- SKILL.md covers Commands, Examples, JSON output and Auth, plus 2 more sections
- Calls pip
- Tech/startup news
What it does
Hackernews CLI is an agent skill from ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB. Browses and interacts with Hacker News via cli-web-hackernews — top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, story details with comments, search, user profiles, and (with login) upvoting, submitting, commenting, favoriting, and hiding. Use when the user asks about Hacker News, HN stories, tech/startup news, or wants to post or vote on HN. Prefer cli-web-hackernews over fetching the HN website.
Its SKILL.md is about 810 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: Claude Code plugin that generates production-grade Python CLIs for any web app. 20 CLIs and counting. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The user asks about Hacker News
- Tech/startup news
Example prompts
- “Use the hackernews-cli skill to browse and interacts with Hacker News via cli-web-hackernews — top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, story…”
- “/hackernews-cli”
Requirements
- Python 3
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 931e201. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
pip
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Hackernews CLI loads about 809 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 282 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB at commit 931e201, republished under its MIT licence (© ItamarZand88). 282 words, ~809 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/hackernews-cli/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- hackernews-cli
- description
- Browses and interacts with Hacker News via cli-web-hackernews — top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, story details with comments, search, user profiles, and (with login) upvoting, submitting, commenting, favoriting, and hiding. Use when the user asks about Hacker News, HN stories, tech/startup news, or wants to post or vote on HN. Prefer cli-web-hackernews over fetching the HN website.
cli-web-hackernews
Hacker News on the command line: browsing and search need no auth; voting, submitting, commenting, favoriting, and hiding need login.
Install: pip install cli-web-hackernews
Commands
Browse (no auth)
stories top|new|best|ask|show|jobs— story feeds. Options:-n/--limit N(default 30)stories view STORY_ID— story + comment tree. Options:-n/--limit N(comments, default 10),--no-commentssearch stories QUERY/search comments QUERY— Algolia search. Options:-n/--limit N(default 20),--page N(0-indexed),--sort-date(by date instead of relevance)user view USERNAME— public profile (karma, member since, about)
Account actions (auth required)
upvote ITEM_ID— upvote a story or commentsubmit -t TITLE [-u URL] [--text BODY]— submit a link, or omit-ufor Ask HNcomment PARENT_ID TEXT— comment on a story or reply to a commentfavorite ITEM_ID/hide ITEM_ID— save / hide a storyuser favorites|submissions|threads [USERNAME]— your activity (or another user's, where public). Options:-n/--limit Nauth login(username/password prompt),auth login-browser,auth status,auth logout
Examples
# Front page, top 10
cli-web-hackernews stories top -n 10 --json
# A story with its first 5 comments
cli-web-hackernews stories view 47530330 -n 5 --json
# Search recent stories about Rust
cli-web-hackernews search stories "rust" --sort-date -n 10 --json
# Submit an Ask HN (requires login)
cli-web-hackernews submit -t "Ask HN: Best CLI tooling?" --text "Looking for recommendations" --json
# Upvote then favorite a story
cli-web-hackernews upvote 47530330 --json && cli-web-hackernews favorite 47530330 --jsonJSON output
Add --json for structured output. Stories: {id, title, url, score, by, descendants, age, domain}. Search results: {objectID, title, url, author, points, num_comments}. Users: {id, karma, member_since, about_plain, total_submissions}. Actions: {success, item_id, action}. Errors: {"error": true, "code": "...", "message": "..."}.
Auth
Run cli-web-hackernews auth login for an interactive username/password prompt (or auth login-browser to log in via a browser window). Check with auth status --json. Auth-required commands fail with an {"error": true, ...} envelope when not logged in.
Utilities
cli-web-hackernews doctor [--json] diagnoses local setup (install, auth, dependencies). cli-web-hackernews mcp-serve exposes the commands as MCP tools over stdio. Running with no arguments opens an interactive REPL.
Agent tips
searchcovers all of HN history (Algolia);storiesreflects the live feeds.user favorites/submissions/threadsdefault to your own account when USERNAME is omitted.
© ItamarZand88, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/hackernews-cli of ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 931e201
Compare with similar skills
Hackernews CLI next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hackernews CLI this skillItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB | 231 | — | ~809 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Hacker News Front Page Scrapergarrytan/gstack | 136k | — | ~355 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Hacker Newsunifapi-agent/agents | 587 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Aeon Hacker News DigestBankrBot/skills | 1.2k | — | ~561 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Hacker News Scrapermajiayu000/claude-skill-registry | 666 | 2 repos | ~538 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Competitor News MonitorNousResearch/hermes-agent | 252k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Hackernews CLI
What does Hackernews CLI do?
Browses and interacts with Hacker News via cli-web-hackernews — top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, story details with comments, search, user profiles, and (with login) upvoting…. Hackernews CLI is an agent skill from ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB. Browses and interacts with Hacker News via cli-web-hackernews — top/new/best stories, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs, story details with comments, search, user profiles, and (with login) upvoting, submitting, commenting, favoriting, and hiding.
When should I use Hackernews CLI?
Hackernews CLI fits situations like: the user asks about Hacker News; tech/startup news.
How do I install Hackernews CLI in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/hackernews-cli in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB) into .claude/skills/hackernews-cli in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Hackernews CLI in Codex?
Run `npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/hackernews-cli in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB) into .agents/skills/hackernews-cli in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Hackernews CLI in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB --skill hackernews-cli -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hackernews-cli, .gemini/skills/hackernews-cli, .github/skills/hackernews-cli and .opencode/skills/hackernews-cli in your project.
What does Hackernews CLI need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Hackernews CLI needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pip). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Hackernews CLI access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Hackernews CLI safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Hackernews CLI use?
Hackernews CLI is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Hackernews CLI use?
About 809 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Hackernews CLI?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Hackernews CLI: Hacker News Front Page Scraper (garrytan/gstack, 136k stars), Hacker News (unifapi-agent/agents, 587 stars), Aeon Hacker News Digest (BankrBot/skills, 1.2k stars) and Hacker News Scraper (majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, 666 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Hackernews CLI?
ItamarZand88 (a GitHub user) maintains it in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB, which has 231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 1, 2026.
Source: ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.