HackerNews/API on Hacker News

Have you look at the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?

comment by gus_massa · 2022-04-06 · in Ask HN: How to index all possible HN new links?

…of careful consideration I would simply prefer to discuss elsewhere, do not show up in my feed. [0] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by nathanasmith · 2022-02-28 · in Tell HN: Thank you for the noprocrast flag

It's Firebase. https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by r6203 · 2022-02-08 · in HN ran on a single box in 2018 has anything changed?

…https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ https://github.com/crispgm/awesome-engineering-blogs https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs https://github.com/markodenic/awesome-tech-blogs…

comment by Pr0ject217 · 2022-02-07 · in Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

FYI, this uses the Hacker News API which I didn't know existed until researching this: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by statico · 2022-02-02 · in Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews

Quite surprised that you're scraping HN and parse the DOM. Maybe should try use the API? https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by cheeaun · 2022-01-23 · in Show HN: Hacker XP – Hacker News styled as a Windows XP Outlook email client

…performance to spare. (Hopefully that will change this year.) If you need to check more frequently, https://github.com/HackerNews/API works fine and you can get JSON that way anyhow.

comment by dang · 2022-01-13 · in Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially)

…in the future Why are you scraping? We have an API, it's linked at the bottom of every page[0]. 0: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by diogenesjunior · 2022-01-13 · in Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially)

…scraping. HN has a rudimentary but functioning API [1], and there is dump on BigQuery [2]. [1]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...

comment by finite_jest · 2021-12-30 · in Ask HN: Is it OK to scrape HN comments and save for data collection?

No; a copy of the HN database is synced regularly to Firebase ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ), but IIRC the site itself runs on a single process on a single machine with a standby ready. edit: Yup.…

comment by ceejayoz · 2021-12-16 · in Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

Hacker news provides its own api, but it's not as easy to use as you would like. https://github.com/HackerNews/API#design

comment by sorahn · 2021-12-09 · in Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

didn't know about it. https://github.com/HackerNews/API . Checked it out, the api wouldn't have helped me: the API reponse for this flagged story doesn't indicate, that it has been flagged. https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/2910305…

comment by MichaelMoser123 · 2021-11-05 · in Show HN: Page and crawler that show flagged HN submissions only

…can filter. Maybe you could obtain something more specific building a special RSS feed through the API ( github.com/HackerNews/API )?

comment by mdp2021 · 2021-10-24 · in RSS is wonderful

…we could release in the time we had. While awkward, it's possible to implement most of HN using it. https://github.com/HackerNews/API My words may have been a bit too harsh but I still think I have a point. The only thing I could find use…

comment by busymom0 · 2021-10-01 · in CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught

Hmm, it seems to be working. There are some nice examples on https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by BoHerfIIIJrEsq · 2021-08-26 · in Ask HN: How do I connect to Hacker News API?

Most 3rd apps use the Hackernews API https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by mtmail · 2021-08-12 · in Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

…page as seen by the API. https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/28060112.json?pri... See also https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by gabrielsroka · 2021-08-07 · in Ask HN: Any (free) Hacker News datasets around?

…a hundred requests, so I use this approach in my client[2]. [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/api [1]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2]: https://github.com/goranmoomin/HackerNews

comment by pcr910303 · 2021-08-01 · in Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq

…never leave the app (except for news.ycombinator.com) — it’s tucked in your keychain. [0]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by pcr910303 · 2021-07-22 · in Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

…for offline reading I guess that’s one more feature that I should add to my backlog :) [0]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/api

comment by pcr910303 · 2021-07-22 · in Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

Is there actually a search.json endpoint? https://github.com/HackerNews/API doesn't list this as a valid endpoint. Indeed, when I try to access it via curl, I get a HTTP 405 with a "Permission denied" error (same result when I try to…

comment by vitus · 2021-07-03 · in GitHub Copilot

…News was openly available. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390685 And there's also an API. https://github.com/HackerNews/API There's lots of Wikipedia-like software available, too. I guess it depends on what you mean by "build" a…

comment by MilnerRoute · 2021-06-20 · in How do you build a community like HN or similar?

Last time I "archived" my account data on HN I used https://github.com/HackerNews/API which seems to be working good enough for my needs.

comment by capableweb · 2021-05-25 · in Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR

There is public API for HN data https://github.com/HackerNews/API Does it count like ability to download your data?

comment by vincnetas · 2021-05-25 · in Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR

…Totally hilarious that you posted this on a discussion site whose API doesn't require tokens. https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by KirillPanov · 2021-05-03 · in Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since

…get at most 500 stories. [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPer... [1]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by aome510 · 2021-04-25 · in Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

…Hacker News Posts we were using the public Hacker News API, which returns the posts in JSON format: https://github.com/HackerNews/API The crawling speed of 100...1000 pages per second refers to crawling the external pages linked from…

comment by wolfgarbe · 2021-04-15 · in Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

I notice there's an API https://github.com/HackerNews/API but don't see any of the core site code. Is there any way people can contribute back?

comment by dalrympm · 2021-01-09 · in Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2021)

Not sure you mean, content is from the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by cheeaun · 2020-12-28 · in HN Alternative UIs

The (best) stories are fetched via the Hacker News API: - API call documentation: https://github.com/HackerNews/API#new-top-and-best-stories - Code pointer: https://github.com/lopespm/hackernews-daily/blob/main/hnsour... - This is…

comment by lopespm · 2020-12-26 · in Show HN: Hacker News Daily – Lightweight glance over the past best stories

…minimalism crowd. Especially because the api its pretty solid you can build whatever stuff you want https://github.com/HackerNews/API You could implement you own tagging system and see if people bite. For instance I built a comment…

comment by wh-uws · 2020-12-20 · in Ask HN: Why HN Doesn't Have Tags?

The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase. https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by porkbrain · 2020-12-14 · in Google outage – resolved

OP: Hackernews offers an excellent API via Firebase: https://github.com/HackerNews/API . Unfortunately, their fetch method doesn't offer any way to filter by item types. So collecting all posts take excessively long thanks to all the…

comment by massanishi · 2020-11-17 · in 239,621 Hacker News datasets from the past 5 years

…popularity, which maps to 'score' in the data structure that the API sorts. You can see that here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API The highest position on front page is not, AFAICT stored in any way and is not searchable.

comment by justinhj · 2020-10-14 · in Algolia releases new AI search features

HackerNews has an open API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ). It doesn't say anything specific about the legality and there have been many HackerNews clones in the past. So as far as I know it should not be a problem, but if anyone can…

comment by RubenvanE · 2020-10-08 · in Why I stopped reading HN (2010)

Use this an example, but for real stuff prefer using the official API https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by lixtra · 2020-09-09 · in How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping

https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://hn.algolia.com/api

comment by varbhat · 2020-09-01 · in Scrapping HN / HNewsletter ?

…sentiment analysis ML app on the Who's Hiring post recently and use a the public firebase REST API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API . It mostly works for my usecase but its search capabilities are severely lacking over REST so might not…

comment by AlexanderNull · 2020-07-14 · in Ask HN: How to you manage your favorite HN submissions?

What is the difference between the Algolia HN API vs the Hacker News API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API )? The Hacker News API doesn't have any rate limits but appears to be similar to the Algolia API. Does Algolia have its own HN…

comment by ping_pong · 2020-07-09 · in Hacker News RSS Feeds

[flagged] is a visible indicator, so you can just do that analysis yourself. Either use the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API or, if that doesn't include the flag status, scrape it from the website. Then classify whatever number of…

comment by yorwba · 2020-06-14 · in Ask HN: Can HN admins show what % of all flagged posts lately are China related?

…their API on github. It's simplistic but you can still use it to write a sh*ttier version of HN. https://github.com/HackerNews/API I just wish they'd open source their We're-Not-Reddit behaviors library.

comment by ourmandave · 2020-06-06 · in A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

It also has an official API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by bhhaskin · 2020-05-20 · in Unofficial APIs

Just use one of those CSS extensions and roll your own using HN's API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API Also, CSS is an abomination, aesthetics have always belonged on the client side.

comment by anigbrowl · 2020-05-16 · in Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

…Although, the documentation says that field is HTML, so I'm not sure what to think. https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by shpx · 2020-04-25 · in Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

…the data when HN offers an official API[1]? Does the API not expose all the data you need? [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by Etheryte · 2020-04-14 · in Hacker_news_scraper

Use this https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by vasco · 2020-04-11 · in Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs

It's a shame favorites aren't exposed in the official HN API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API - this is a smart workaround.

comment by simonw · 2020-04-05 · in Show HN: Export HN Favorites to a CSV File

…I also ported it to web with Emscripten's Fetch API so it can be easily demonstrated [1]. [0] - https://github.com/HackerNews/API [1] - https://hnterm.ggerganov.com

comment by ggerganov · 2019-12-15 · in Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal

HN has an API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API I'm using it to track common items here and on Lobste.rs (and Proggit): http://gerikson.com/hnlo/ Here's the endpoint for the latest 500 submissions: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/new…

comment by gerikson · 2019-11-24 · in Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker

…have much performance to spare. If you need more than that, you should use the Firebase-based API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ). The public dataset is also available as a Google BigQuery table:…

comment by dang · 2019-11-24 · in Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker