Show HN: App2Api – Give your AI the API behind your app
App2Api is a free beta tool designed to provide AI systems with access to the APIs behind specific applications. The service is intended exclusively for use on applications that the user owns or has explicit authorization to test. Users are responsible for ensuring their usage complies with the target service's terms, applicable laws, and any relevant authorizations.
- ▪App2Api is currently available as a free beta version.
- ▪The tool is intended solely for use on applications owned by the user or for which they have explicit testing authorization.
- ▪Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with the target service's terms and applicable law.
- ▪App2Api declines requests that the service cannot reasonably believe are authorized.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 6,514 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | App2Api |
| Canonical URL | https://app2api.com/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:27:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-26T09:31:03.181Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-26T09:31:03.181Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 9GhtIajam-Uq · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
app2api © 2026 App2Api · Free beta App2Api is intended solely for use on applications you own or are explicitly authorized to test. You are responsible for ensuring your use complies with the target service's terms, applicable law, and any authorization you rely on. We decline requests we cannot reasonably believe are authorized.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at App2Api.
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