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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/lobsters-api/v1/active" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/lobsters-api/v1/active", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/lobsters-api/v1/active");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/lobsters-api/v1/active",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "count": 25,
        "total": 25,
        "stories": [
            {
                "url": "https://opensourceaimustwin.com",
                "tags": [
                    "vibecoding"
                ],
                "score": 10,
                "title": "Opensource AI Must Win",
                "short_id": "sqh2uq",
                "submitter": "Yogthos",
                "created_at": "2026-06-13T05:24:09.000-05:00",
                "description": null,
                "comments_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/sqh2uq/opensource_ai_must_win",
                "lobsters_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/sqh2uq",
                "comment_count": 3
            },
            {
                "url": "https://aras-p.info/blog/2026/06/11/Unity-vs-floating-point/",
                "tags": [
                    "dotnet",
                    "performance"
                ],
                "score": 2,
                "title": "Unity vs floating point",
                "short_id": "hiskji",
                "submitter": "polywolf",
                "created_at": "2026-06-12T17:27:55.000-05:00",
                "description": null,
                "comments_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/hiskji/unity_vs_floating_point",
                "lobsters_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/hiskji",
                "comment_count": 1
            },
            {
                "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access",
                "tags": [
                    "vibecoding"
                ],
                "score": 28,
                "title": "Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5",
                "short_id": "nbaa0n",
                "submitter": "WilhelmVonWeiner",
                "created_at": "2026-06-12T22:33:10.000-05:00",
                "description": null,
                "comments_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/nbaa0n/statement_on_us_government_directive",
                "lobsters_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/nbaa0n",
                "comment_count": 15
            },
            {
                "url": "https://eclecticlight.co/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon/",
                "tags": [
                    "mac",
                    "virtualization"
                ],
                "score": 6,
                "title": "Tools for running VMs on apple silicon macs",
                "short_id": "yskrgb",
                "submitter": "juliethefoxcoon",
                "created_at": "2026-06-12T19:49:19.000-05:00",
                "description": null,
                "comments_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/yskrgb/tools_for_running_vms_on_apple_silicon",
                "lobsters_url": "https://lobste.rs/s/yskrgb",
                "comment_count": 2
            },
            {
                "url": "https://charlottebuff.com/unicode/misc/rejected-emoji-proposals/",
                "tags": [
                    "programming"
                ],
                "score": 39,
                "title
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