Free HN, Substack, and GitHub Scraping API — No Signup Required

Why we built this Apify is great for discovery and complex scraping workflows. But sometimes you just want to grab the latest HN posts about a topic, pull recent articles from a Substack publication, or search GitHub repos — without setting up an account, configuring an actor, or reading 20 pages of docs. So we built a lightweight scraping API that runs on a 256MB server. Three endpoints, one demo key, zero signup. The endpoints 1. Hacker News search Pull HN stories matching a keyword: curl 'https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/api/v1/hn?q=AI+scraping&limit=5&api_key=demo-key-2026' Returns title, URL, points, and comment count for matching stories. 2. Substack articles Grab recent posts from any Substack publication: curl 'https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/api/v1/substack?publication=platformer&limit=3&api_key=demo-key-2026' Returns title, subtitle, date, and URL for recent posts. 3. GitHub repo search Search public repos by keyword: curl 'https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/api/v1/github?q=python+scraper