Hacker News

HackerNews enables an Agent to search Hacker News website.

Example

The following agent will write an engaging summary of the users with the top 2 stories on hackernews along with the stories.

cookbook/14_tools/hackernews.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools

agent = Agent(
    name="Hackernews Team",
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
        markdown=True,
)

agent.print_response(
    "Write an engaging summary of the "
    "users with the top 2 stories on hackernews. "
    "Please mention the stories as well.",
)

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.

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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