HackerNews/API on Hacker News

…feedback to improve my skills is more than welcome. Together with PRs to the repo, of course! [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by call-me-al · 2022-10-04 · in Show HN: GoHN – Hacker News API Wrapper for Go

…could release in the time we had. While awkward, it's possible to implement most of HN using it." https://github.com/HackerNews/API If one wants to get the comments for a post on HN from the API, they have to first fetch the post, then…

comment by busymom0 · 2022-09-26 · in Tell HN: My Hacker News app (HACK) is sort of broken this afternoon

…the HN API [1] to grab user profile info etc. The other is for the pro upgrade using ExtPay [2] [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2] https://github.com/glench/ExtPay

comment by sjdz · 2022-09-09 · in Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News

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story by gabrielsroka · 2022-09-01 · 1 comment

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Hacker News Official API

story by marchupfield · 2022-08-21 · 131 comments

…https://serializer.io https://datatau.net/ https://hn.shiftedbits.org https://hn.algolia.com https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://deephn.org http://www.nackerhews.com/ https://yahni.news/ https://darkhn.herokuapp.com/…

comment by pipiscrew · 2022-08-05 · in Autosummarized HN (With GPT3)

There is a guide to the API here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by Agamus · 2022-08-04 · in Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells

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story by iamdan · 2022-07-22 · 2 comments

…Or was that read-only? Yes, it appears that at the time of publication, the API was read-only. [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by guessmyname · 2022-06-26 · in ‘Reverse Engineering’ Hacker News into an API

Maybe used api[0] to get The top stories and then just parsed all the domains. [0] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by vorticalbox · 2022-06-23 · in Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters

Sure! It's a NextJS app that pulls data from the public HN api https://github.com/HackerNews/API . The source for it is here: https://github.com/chiptopher/hackernoise

comment by chiptopher · 2022-06-20 · in Show HN: Hacker News but it's only the comments with none of the context

HN does have a REST API which is quite easy to use. https://github.com/HackerNews/API I'm not sure what rate limiting policy is in place, but in theory you can start with a request for maxitem and from that point on just GET all items down…

comment by arinlen · 2022-04-29 · in Ask HN: Fastest Crawl of HN Articles

Thanks! The GraphQL API is just a wrapper of HackerNews REST API (doc: https://github.com/HackerNews/API ) The REST endpoints do not provide a way to query the items with variable parameters. So, I could not support it either on GraphQL…

comment by hsblhsn · 2022-04-18 · in Show HN: GraphQL Wrapper for Hacker News API

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

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GitHub – Hacker News/API: Documentation and Samples for the Official HN API

story by manikandarajs · 2021-10-23 · 0 comments

…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

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story by unknown_error · 2021-05-14 · 1 comment

…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

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story by fishywang · 2021-04-04 · 10 comments

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