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Documentation and Samples for the Official HN API

257 mentions on Hacker News by 206 people: 37 stories, 220 comments · first 2014-10-07 · latest 2026-10-31

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  1. https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    comment by naklers · 2016-05-20 · in Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console
  2. Have you looked at HN API https://github.com/HackerNews/API for way to extract top-n stories via REST?
    comment by rodionos · 2016-05-17 · in Show HN: Hn_weather, generating time-series “weather” data of Hacker News
  3. …My gut feeling is that the slowest part of this would be the API call to HN [2] or Reddit [3]. [2]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API [3]: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api [1]: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-02-27 · in After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher server is back
  4. …to check for replies and have it show a popup when you get a notification as well as send an email. https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    comment by autotune · 2016-02-11 · in Show HN: HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments
  5. HN API? https://github.com/HackerNews/API Haven't used it yet, so no comment on how well it works/how far back it goes)
    comment by detaro · 2016-01-20 · in Scrapy Tips from the Pros
  6. …news from Y Combinator Hacker News. This extension was created using the official Hacker News Api: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    comment by luisjorge129 · 2015-12-19 · in Show HN: Hacker News Extension for Google Chrome
  7. They've been telling client developers that they should move from screen-scraping to using the API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ) for a while now. I don't know if that's the problem with this specific client, but you may want to…
    comment by smacktoward · 2015-11-10 · in HN now mostly readable on mobile
  8. …[3, 4, 5, 6], but how complete they are and whether or not they've been maintained is unknown. [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2] https://github.com/algolia/hn-search [3] https://archive.org/details/HackerNewsStoriesAndCommentsDump…
    comment by jcr · 2015-08-12 · in Ask HN: Any HN stats analysis been done?
  9. https://github.com/HackerNews/API#items Also the file is ~5.3GB when decompressed, if anyone is wondering.
    comment by frou_dh · 2015-08-04 · in Show HN: Download the first 10,002,378 HN comments/stories as one archive
  10. Have you read the API? https://github.com/HackerNews/API#users IIUC, this list all the comments, submissions, polls, ... of a user, so you have to manually query each one and filter the comments. Also, hnapp has filters and a json option,…
    comment by gus_massa · 2015-07-12 · in Ask HN: Downloading all of your comments
  11. Since the official API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ) does not support authentication, how are you collecting and storing auth credentials for login/posting?
    comment by minimaxir · 2015-05-14 · in Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App
  12. There's API for HN ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ), it's not that hard to make one yourself. This is Hacker News after all.
    comment by kbart · 2015-04-07 · in Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
  13. We offer a lot of data (in JSON and XML) via our Firebase powered API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    comment by kogir · 2015-03-10 · in Ask HN: Why the HN Nginx error for articles below 9M?
  14. As far as I know, HN offers an official API here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API But it specifically says "We hope to improve it over time, and may later enable access to private per-user data using OAuth." So I'm assuming that login,…
    comment by Flux159 · 2015-02-20 · in Ask HN: HN APIs (or lack thereof)
  15. No. The HN API is public though. https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    comment by antouank · 2014-12-29 · in Show HN: New Hacker News web client
  16. …HN API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422599 https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    comment by jcr · 2014-12-15 · in HN Insights: Playing with Hacker News Data
  17. …api to get the articles Code here: https://github.com/Bachmann1234/hn-tldr http://aylien.com/ https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    comment by bachmann1234 · 2014-12-15 · in Show HN: Hacker News TLDR
  18. …). If you're trying to find out what the latest updates are, they're kept in the /updates node ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API#changed-items-and-profiles ).
    comment by sararob · 2014-10-07 · in Hacker News API
  19. Just pushed the ability to subscribe to all changes and new items: https://github.com/HackerNews/API/blob/master/README.md#live...
    comment by kogir · 2014-10-07 · in Hacker News API
  20. The issue tracker on https://github.com/HackerNews/API appears to be disabled, though the summary says "Documentation, Samples, and Issue Tracking for the Official HN API."
    comment by tokenizerrr · 2014-10-07 · in Hacker News API