@browserkit/adapter-hackernews

Hacker News adapter for browserkit — exposes HN as MCP tools over a persistent headless browser session.

Tools

Tool	Input	Description
get_top	count: 1–30	Front page stories
get_new	count: 1–30	Newest submissions
get_ask	count: 1–30	Ask HN posts
get_show	count: 1–30	Show HN posts
get_comments	id: numeric or URL, count: 1–20	Top-level comments for a story

Plus 5 auto-registered management tools from the framework: health_check, set_mode, take_screenshot, get_page_state, navigate.

Usage

// browserkit.config.js
import { defineConfig } from "@browserkit/core";

export default defineConfig({
  adapters: {
    "@browserkit/adapter-hackernews": { port: 3847 },
  },
});

npx @browserkit/core start

Connect any MCP client to http://127.0.0.1:3847/mcp.

Tests

pnpm test                # unit + MCP protocol + reliability (61 tests)
pnpm test:integration    # live browser scraping against real HN