8 endpoints for Hacker News top and best stories with full metadata, Wikipedia's featured articles and on-this-day events, the latest spaceflight news from SpaceflightNewsAPI, and GitHub user profiles, repositories, search, and trending repos. Perfect for building developer dashboards, news aggregators, and tech community tools.
Base URL: https://nordapi.ee/api/v1
GET /news/hackernews/top
Get the current top stories from Hacker News, ranked by the HN ranking algorithm (a combination of votes and recency). Returns story titles, URLs, scores, comment counts, and authors. Configurable limit (default 20). Essential for developer news feeds, tech dashboards, and startup community tools. Data fetched in real-time from the official Hacker News Firebase API.
limit
optional
default: 20
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top
GET /news/hackernews/best
Get the highest-voted Hacker News stories over a longer time period (the 'best' ranking emphasizes total score over recency). Returns story titles, URLs, scores, comment counts, and authors. Useful for discovering the most impactful tech stories you might have missed, building 'best of HN' digests, and curating high-quality developer content. Data from the Hacker News API.
limit
optional
default: 20
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best
GET /news/wikipedia
Get Wikipedia's featured content for today (or a specified date), including the featured article, 'on this day' historical events, notable birthdays, and picture of the day. Returns rich content with summaries and thumbnail images. Useful for educational apps, daily knowledge features, trivia tools, and content platforms that want to surface interesting encyclopedia content. Data from the Wikimedia REST API.
date
optional
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/wikipedia
GET /news/spaceflight
Get the latest spaceflight news articles from SpaceflightNewsAPI, covering rocket launches, space missions, satellite deployments, space policy, and commercial space industry developments. Returns article titles, summaries, publication dates, source names, and image URLs. Useful for space news aggregators, science dashboards, and aerospace industry monitoring tools.
limit
optional
default: 10
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/spaceflight
GET /github/user/:username
Get a public GitHub user profile by username, including display name, bio, avatar URL, company, location, public repo count, follower/following counts, and account creation date. Useful for developer portfolio tools, team pages that pull data from GitHub, recruitment platforms, and open source contributor profiles. Data from the GitHub REST API.
username
required
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/github/user/torvalds
GET /github/user/:username/repos
Get a list of public repositories for a specific GitHub user, including repo names, descriptions, star counts, fork counts, primary language, and last update dates. Useful for building developer portfolio pages, analyzing a user's open source contributions, and creating project showcases. Data from the GitHub REST API.
username
required
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/github/user/torvalds/repos
GET /github/search
Search across all public GitHub repositories by keyword. Returns matching repos with names, descriptions, star counts, fork counts, languages, and owner information. Useful for finding open source libraries, discovering projects in specific technology stacks, competitive analysis, and building developer tool recommendation engines. Data from the GitHub Search API.
q
required
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/github/search?q=elixir+phoenix"
GET /github/trending
Get the currently trending repositories on GitHub - the projects gaining the most stars and attention right now. Returns repo names, descriptions, star counts, languages, and authors. Useful for developer dashboards, 'what's hot in open source' features, tech newsletters, and staying current with the developer community's latest interests.
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/github/trending