Lobsters API

curl 'https://lobste.rs/hottest.json'

const res = await fetch("https://lobste.rs/hottest.json");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://lobste.rs/hottest.json", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

[
  {
    "short_id": "5gcd3t",
    "created_at": "2026-08-19T05:55:29.500-05:00",
    "title": "HTML Can Do That",
    "url": "https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/",
    "score": 113,
    "flags": 0,
    "comment_count": 30,
    "description": "",
    "description_plain": "",
    "submitter_user": "abhin4v",
    "user_is_author": false,
    "tags": [
      "web"
    ],
    "short_id_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/5gcd3t",
    "comments_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/5gcd3t/html_can_do"
  },
  {
    "short_id": "caubyr",
    "created_at": "2026-08-19T01:20:33.273-05:00",
    "title": "Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good",
    "url": "https://tipiirai.com/writing/bun-rust-rewrite-worries",
    "score": 83,
    "flags": 4,
    "comment_count": 77,
    "description": "",
    "description_plain": "",
    "submitter_user": "robinheghan",
    "user_is_author": false,
    "tags": [
      "vibecoding"
    ],
    "short_id_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/caubyr",
    "comments_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/caubyr/bun_1_4_rust_rewrite_is_not_looking_good"
  },
  {
    "short_id": "kj1bvt",
    "created_at": "2026-08-19T08:01:00.885-05:00",
    "title": "Why I still hand write my commit messages",
    "url": "https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/",
    "score": 20,
    "flags": 2,
    "comment_count": 9,
    "description": "",
    "description_plain": "",
    "submitter_user": "JamieTanna",
    "user_is_author": true,
    "tags": [
      "practices",
      "vcs",
      "vibecoding"
    ],
    "short_id_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/kj1bvt",
    "comments_url": "https://lobst