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Webz
Company blog · webhose.io/blogsecuritydata
Webz is the company blog at webhose.io, writing about security and data. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Cool Useless Demo”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention webhose.io as a news-data API used for scraping, and list it among news API services with their pricing. The comments do not judge any writing on the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Webz.io provides News APIs, Web Data APIs, and Dark Web APIs that collect, organize, and enrich data from across the open, deep, and dark web for AI, cybersecurity, and intelligence products.
Most-linked posts?
- Cool Useless Demo2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-10
What Hacker News says?
For scraping I've used the webhose api (I am still on the free account hence when u click on the link it has a 5 second redirect). I've found it is an excellent resource and easy to use API, I highly recommend it http://webhose.io/ For the tech stack its just node.js and express on the backend and vanilla JS on the front end using webpack for bundling. I built this project really as a means to teach myself to write…
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News”Submitted 4chan and 8chan – Monitoring the Hotbeds of Extremism and Radicalism as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI googled a put together a few similar services (not affiliated ) and it seems like pricing varies quite a lot paid package start at 150 to 449 per month (all provide free service though). 1) https://currentsapi.services/en 2) https://contextualweb.io/news-api/ 3) https://webhose.io/products/news-feeds/ 4) https://aylien.com/news-api/
Comment linking /products/news-feeds/
on “Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles”Submitted Webhose Uses Image Recognition to Identify Illicit Content on the Dark Web as a story · 22 points
HN discussionWorks well for me: https://webhose.io/demo/cool-useless-demo
Comment linking /demo/cool-useless-demo
on “What do you get when you count frequent names in posts that also mention Trump?”Submitted Dark Web Marketplaces as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Darkweb criminals are using the Blockchain as a user management and payment DB as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Top Leak Trading Dark Web Actors of 2020 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Top 5 Dark Web Telegram Chat Groups and Channels as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Ways to Build a Profile for a Threat Actor as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rising Trends in Ransomware and Data in the Dark Web as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Top 5 Dark Web Forums as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free dataset from news/forums/blogs about CoronaVirus (4 month / 5.2M posts) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top Digital Threats for Brands as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webhose Source Review – Telegram Fresh Fullz and Dumps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted All About Gab.com as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of the Top Dark Web Search Engines as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fake Vaccines, Counterfeit, Hacking: How Dark Web Criminals Are Abusing Covid-19 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webhose provides an API to search for images based on Geolocation Exif data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Rekognition and Webhose.io API = Cool Demo as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Imminent Dark Web Threats for Fortune 500 Brands as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Tor Search Engine? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Early Detection of the Weibo Data Breach: A Case Study as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise and Fall of Dark Web Marketplaces as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webhose.io DarkWeb Data Feed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What do you get when you count frequent names in posts that also mention Trump? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted So you think you know everything about the dark web? Think again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live geomap of images with GPS meta-data found online as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An awesome list of high-quality datasets (news, review, languages and more) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool Useless Demo as a story · 3 points
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