Social · head-to-head
Blogger vs HackerNews
Blogger API v3 is Google's REST/JSON interface for its blogging platform, letting apps retrieve and manage blogs, posts, comments, and pages. Public data can be read with a plain API key, but writing content or touching private data requires a full OAuth 2.0 authorization flow. The docs still list the deprecated v1.0 and v2.0 protocol guides alongside the current v3.0 reference, reflecting a mature, low-churn API that hasn't needed a v4.
The official Hacker News API is a read-only Firebase-backed REST feed publishing items (stories, comments, jobs, polls) and user profiles as simple JSON, with helper endpoints for the current top/new/best/ask/show/job story ID lists. It requires no API key or registration, updates roughly every 30 seconds to reflect live site activity, and has stayed structurally unchanged since Y Combinator open-sourced it in 2015.
| Blogger | HackerNews | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
HackerNews needs no API key, while Blogger requires OAuth — pick HackerNews to start without signup.