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Lobsters paged hottest stories

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Read public hottest-story pages with exact story/discussion identity, scores, comment counts, tags and validated next-page links.

How a pipeline uses this source

SourcesStories — Read public hottest-story pages with exact story/discussion identity, scores, comment counts, tags and validated next-page links.
Step
Stories
Read public hottest-story pages with exact story/discussion identity, scores, comment counts, tags and validated next-page links.
StartChecks — 2 saved checks run against the live site and a stored copy of the page. Last passed 1 Nov 2026. When the site changes, Jason repairs the source and publishes a new revision.
Step
Checks
2 saved checks run against the live site and a stored copy of the page. Last passed 1 Nov 2026. When the site changes, Jason repairs the source and publishes a new revision.
Your Dataset — Rows delivered to your sheet, warehouse, alerts or assistant on the schedule you choose.
Output
Your Dataset
Rows delivered to your sheet, warehouse, alerts or assistant on the schedule you choose.
EndSources — lobste.rs
Sources
lobste.rs
  1. 01 · sources

    Sources

    lobste.rs

  2. 02

    Stories

    Read public hottest-story pages with exact story/discussion…

  3. 03

    Checks

    2 saved checks run against the live site and a stored copy of…

  4. 04 · output

    Your Dataset

    Rows delivered to your sheet, warehouse, alerts or assistant…

What Lobsters paged hottest stories does

Read public hottest-story pages with exact story/discussion identity, scores, comment counts, tags and validated next-page links.

Collects: Public hottest-story pages

Reads

lobste.rs

Limitations

Hottest-story listing only, pages 1..20 per caller selection. Rankings can change across pages; no archive completeness or full article/comment bodies. Exhausted or unreadable empty pages fail rather than masquerade as valid data.

Site and app names identify the source only. Jsonify is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. How Jsonify reads sites, and how a site owner can opt out: for site owners.

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Server URLhttps://factory.jsonify.com/mcp

Official Claude custom-connector guide ↗

Then say: “build me a dataset of competitor product prices and availability, refreshed daily”. Full instructions per client on /connect.