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Here you go: http://api.ihackernews.com/ http://api.ihackernews.com/ It's an unofficial API though and it might not do everything you need.

by bobds 16y ago

dustingetz 16y ago
is this condoned by PG?
- sahillavingia 16y ago
  For now, the answer seems to be yes.
  - benatkin 16y ago
    I'm inclined to agree. Remember, pg doesn't provide an RSS feed for his essays. http://www.paulgraham.com/rss.html http://www.paulgraham.com/rss.html
    - riobard 16y ago
      Any words on why there is no API for HN?
      - benatkin 16y ago
        It might be a philosophical thing. One APIs became popular, scraping started to be viewed as breaking the rules. I think this has discouraged many from writing search engines. Crawlers are just scrapers on a big scale. I know I'd like to see more serious attempts at vertical search engines. I wonder if getting backlash, in the form of people complaining to hosting companies, would be the hardest part of writing a search engine for ruby blog posts that understands regular expressions. I could certainly use such a tool.
      - sahillavingia 16y ago
        Time that could be spent working on some other, higher-marginal-utility thing, I would think.
- ronnier 16y ago
  He's aware of it because he responded to an AskHN question about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702399 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702399 He didn't say not to do it :)
sh1mmer 16y ago
I also made a YQL table for HackerNews a while back which should be as polite to the site as possible. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20hackernews.frontpage%3B&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%... YQL implements a bunch of caching layers so it should tread as lightly as possible. Disclaimer: I do work for Yahoo!
- util 16y ago
  Just curious, especially after the deal with Microsoft: Has Yahoo made any long term commitments to support this? Would love to use this for some projects.
  - sh1mmer 16y ago
    Yes. It's been explicitly stated on our blog and on the YQL page that it's not going away. Specifically we've promised a minimum of 6mo notice if we ever did decide to shut it down.

Here you go: http://api.ihackernews.com/ http://api.ihackernews.com/ It's an unofficial API though and it might not do everything you need.

by bobds 16y ago

Here you go: http://api.ihackernews.com/ http://api.ihackernews.com/ It's an unofficial API though and it might not do everything you need.

dustingetz 16y ago

is this condoned by PG?

sahillavingia 16y ago
For now, the answer seems to be yes.
- benatkin 16y ago
  I'm inclined to agree. Remember, pg doesn't provide an RSS feed for his essays. http://www.paulgraham.com/rss.html http://www.paulgraham.com/rss.html
  - riobard 16y ago
    Any words on why there is no API for HN?
    - benatkin 16y ago
      It might be a philosophical thing. One APIs became popular, scraping started to be viewed as breaking the rules. I think this has discouraged many from writing search engines. Crawlers are just scrapers on a big scale. I know I'd like to see more serious attempts at vertical search engines. I wonder if getting backlash, in the form of people complaining to hosting companies, would be the hardest part of writing a search engine for ruby blog posts that understands regular expressions. I could certainly use such a tool.
    - sahillavingia 16y ago
      Time that could be spent working on some other, higher-marginal-utility thing, I would think.
ronnier 16y ago
He's aware of it because he responded to an AskHN question about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702399 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702399 He didn't say not to do it :)

sh1mmer 16y ago

I also made a YQL table for HackerNews a while back which should be as polite to the site as possible. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20hackernews.frontpage%3B&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%... YQL implements a bunch of caching layers so it should tread as lightly as possible. Disclaimer: I do work for Yahoo!

util 16y ago
Just curious, especially after the deal with Microsoft: Has Yahoo made any long term commitments to support this? Would love to use this for some projects.
- sh1mmer 16y ago
  Yes. It's been explicitly stated on our blog and on the YQL page that it's not going away. Specifically we've promised a minimum of 6mo notice if we ever did decide to shut it down.