HackerNews/API on Hacker News

You wouldn't even need to mine it - https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by chipperyman573 · 2018-02-19 · in Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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story by baccredited · 2018-01-11 · 1 comment

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Ask HN: Way to access favorites of a user by HN API?

story by relyks · 2017-12-20 · 0 comments

…of comments, the HN API has this [1]. Here's the API request for that post [2], and yours [3]. [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2] https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/15943530.json?pri... [3]…

comment by niftich · 2017-12-17 · in Her six-hour commute each day seems crazy, but her affordable rent is not

…to search for, in-browser, but the API makes it pretty easy to scrape/search whatever you like: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by faitswulff · 2017-11-07 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?

the hn api could be to blame for the slow i/o: https://github.com/HackerNews/API#design

comment by leeoniya · 2017-10-02 · in Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React

…always use the API and build a UI that better suits your needs, should existing ones not suffice. https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by traviswingo · 2017-07-25 · in Ask HN: How can I view older 'Ask HN' questions?

…say 1000, and then add up those controversy scores. The problems is that the HackerNews API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ) only provides a total score for a comment, instead of up and down votes, so you'd have to modify your…

comment by sarabande · 2017-07-04 · in Ask HN: Who are the most controversial (yet still popular) HNers?

…it sounds like you're interested in scraping HN -- if that's the case there is an official API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API My own take on it in general is that for personal/research use I'm not morally opposed to scraping, even when…

comment by paulgb · 2017-06-06 · in Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?

There's an API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by dchest · 2017-05-20 · in Hacker News Readers as Progressive Web Apps

…:) ) OK, now for my offtopic question. I think you're probably the perfect person to ask this. https://github.com/HackerNews/API (linked from the bottom of every HN page except the add-comment page) describes HN's Firebase-based API. The…

comment by i336_ · 2017-05-18 · in Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs

This is awesome ! Congrats.. https://github.com/HackerNews/API The firebase API is excellent. I have been using that to keep http://searchhn.com up to date in real time. Also big query is updated every day with all comments and posts.…

comment by searchhn · 2017-05-14 · in Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags

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Hacker News API page is broken

story by DungFu · 2017-05-08 · 5 comments

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Ask HN: Is there a list of open event streams to do stream processing on?

story by b5u · 2017-04-12 · 5 comments

…to document the process, but I can tell you that having an API based on Firebase helps a lot: - https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by fhoffa · 2017-03-17 · in Hacker News on BigQuery: Now with daily updates. Top domains and time to post?

Very cool! If you don't want to worry about crawling HN you can use the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by jtokoph · 2017-03-14 · in Show HN: HNWatch – Watch HN, filter stories, get e-mail alerts

…an admin link next to each post that pushes it off of the front page? I know that I would. [1] - https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by foob · 2017-03-13 · in Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page

…of hn comments Yes. There's a few HN APIs/sources out there: * https://hn.algolia.com/api * https://github.com/HackerNews/API * https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news

comment by grzm · 2017-03-01 · in Riot Games Messaging Service

…yourself. The HN APIs will likely give you enough data to provide enough data to dig into it. - https://github.com/HackerNews/API - https://hn.algolia.com/api

comment by grzm · 2017-01-03 · in House Republicans Vote to Strip Independence from Ethics Office

…in the sense that you would get the total score of a story, not the votes that comprise it. - https://github.com/HackerNews/API - https://hn.algolia.com/api

comment by grzm · 2016-12-13 · in Tell HN: Downvotes and Upvotes

There's a couple different HN APIs you can use to analyze some of the data: - https://github.com/HackerNews/API - https://hn.algolia.com/api

comment by grzm · 2016-12-01 · in FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails

…own templates, content and engine - crack out your python/alt-language and download the HN News API https://github.com/HackerNews/API for favs/stories posted - find your firebase json repository https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/bo…

comment by bootload · 2016-11-08 · in Show HN: Embed HN comments in your website

…for people's username/password of the different networks. Pardon me, but have you looked at this https://github.com/HackerNews/API http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api ? I'm sure you are aware Reddit has an API. Again, I'm sorry for…

comment by Jugurtha · 2016-11-08 · in Show HN: Embed HN comments in your website

Since the Hacker News API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ) used in this scraping is being brought up again, I'll ask a burning question: is development of the API dead? From the commit notes in that repo, the only changes from the…

comment by minimaxir · 2016-10-31 · in Hacker News Dataset Update October 2016

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Ask HN: How to get timestamp from HN comments?

story by franciscop · 2016-10-31 · 1 comment

I just dug a little into the HN API ( https://github.com/HackerNews/API ). Unfortunately, they don't publish comment ratings... :-( Unless that is changed, implementing an automatic "best comment finder" would become rather more tedious...…

comment by veddox · 2016-10-23 · in HN comments are underrated

…that nobody has mentioned it since we're here, but the Hacker News API is powered by Firebase: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by asciimike · 2016-09-20 · in Reasons not to use Firebase

…sounds like a cool idea. HN has an API [0] ... not sure if this is possible or allowed though. [0] https://github.com/HackerNews/API Also, there's nothing really wrong with having a blog with no recent updates. I know there's this idea…

comment by aethertron · 2016-09-05 · in The writing interest paradox

https://github.com/HackerNews/API api@ycombinator.com

comment by gtirloni · 2016-09-03 · in Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API?

Cool, I saw there are API's https://github.com/HackerNews/API .... Anybody implemented ?

comment by jeshwanth · 2016-07-12 · in Telegram Bot for HN?

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story by kiloreux · 2016-06-05 · 1 comment

Putting in the request now for HN to update their API to provide this: https://github.com/HackerNews/API I figure since a comment of mine sparked 'saved comments' being a thing that lightning could strike twice...but then I guess the API…

comment by busterarm · 2016-05-23 · in Show HN: Export HN saved links (upvotes) as JSON or CSV

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

comment by naklers · 2016-05-20 · in Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console

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

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Why does the Hacker News API not have a comment score?

story by oalders · 2016-04-10 · 5 comments

…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

…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

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

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Ask HN: What happened to the hacker news API?

story by shade23 · 2016-01-13 · 0 comments

…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

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

…[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?

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

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

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

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

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?

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)

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

…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