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Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

16 points by ptm 16y ago

ptm 16y ago
Just a FYI - reddit allows me 1 request/2 seconds - so a lot of queries may only return Bing data (no score/comments etc)
sli 16y ago
You, sir, have done a great public service.
- barlo 16y ago
  I couldn't agree more. Well done. Any plans on releasing the source? I've been looking to play with AppEngine for a project just like this.
  - ptm 16y ago
    Thanks. About releasing, I'll clean the code up and share it when I have time.
jedberg 16y ago
Thank you for doing this. Much like http://www.searchreddit.com/ http://www.searchreddit.com/, this is cool but missing a lot of data and features. You may want to check out these links, also: http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php http://www.reddit.com/help/search http://www.reddit.com/help/search
- ptm 16y ago
  Thanks for the feedback :). I just noticed that I'm seeing a 30-40% failure while using the API - is there any reason that should be so ? I'm batching around 20-30 ids together (as recommended).
  - jedberg 16y ago
    Email me your IP (jedberg@reddit.com) and we'll see if we can figure it out.
stuntmouse 16y ago
seems to work great, thanks. any chance of changing the link color? too much red.
dc2k08 16y ago
just a heads up, I'm getting a BadQueryError if my search term contains an apostrophe.
kmust 16y ago
I have tried searching Reddit several times for an article I read last week - to no avail. It was result #4 in your search results. Thanks!
dawgr 16y ago
I can't PM you for some reason, must be my low karma. I found a reflected XSS vulnerability since it doesn't really matter for this site, I'll paste it here, I hope you don't mind.Just html encoding the <, >, &, " characters will fix it. http://www.ftfysearch.com/search?q=%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3C%2Fhead%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22hi+friend+from+HN%22%29%3B+%3C%2Fscript%3E+%3C%2Fbody%3E+%3C%2Fhtml%3E http://www.ftfysearch.com/search?q=%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3C%2Fhead%...
- ptm 16y ago
  Thanks, I'd forgotten to escape the search string in the title element.

16 points by ptm 16y ago

ptm 16y ago

Just a FYI - reddit allows me 1 request/2 seconds - so a lot of queries may only return Bing data (no score/comments etc)

sli 16y ago

You, sir, have done a great public service.

barlo 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. Well done. Any plans on releasing the source? I've been looking to play with AppEngine for a project just like this.
- ptm 16y ago
  Thanks. About releasing, I'll clean the code up and share it when I have time.

jedberg 16y ago

Thank you for doing this. Much like http://www.searchreddit.com/ http://www.searchreddit.com/, this is cool but missing a lot of data and features. You may want to check out these links, also: http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php http://www.reddit.com/help/search http://www.reddit.com/help/search

ptm 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback :). I just noticed that I'm seeing a 30-40% failure while using the API - is there any reason that should be so ? I'm batching around 20-30 ids together (as recommended).
- jedberg 16y ago
  Email me your IP (jedberg@reddit.com) and we'll see if we can figure it out.

stuntmouse 16y ago

seems to work great, thanks. any chance of changing the link color? too much red.

dc2k08 16y ago

just a heads up, I'm getting a BadQueryError if my search term contains an apostrophe.

kmust 16y ago

I have tried searching Reddit several times for an article I read last week - to no avail. It was result #4 in your search results. Thanks!

dawgr 16y ago

I can't PM you for some reason, must be my low karma. I found a reflected XSS vulnerability since it doesn't really matter for this site, I'll paste it here, I hope you don't mind.Just html encoding the <, >, &, " characters will fix it. http://www.ftfysearch.com/search?q=%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3C%2Fhead%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22hi+friend+from+HN%22%29%3B+%3C%2Fscript%3E+%3C%2Fbody%3E+%3C%2Fhtml%3E http://www.ftfysearch.com/search?q=%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3C%2Fhead%...

ptm 16y ago
Thanks, I'd forgotten to escape the search string in the title element.