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My IP addresses have been blocked.

• bambax 16y ago
  Oh, ok, thanks for the info. But did it send a request to HN with every request it received? It could have answered with the data it had...? Now everything is a 404, did you take the service down completely?
  • ronnier 16y ago
    Yes, I took it all down. I need to rethink this. Clearly some folks aren't happy with it at all. Not that intentions really matter, but my intentions were only to help all of the people who are making HN apps. I figured we could reduce the need to scrape HN if we just distributed the data.
    • DanielRibeiro 16y ago
      As an API, it was rather unknown. Guess what really ticked people off was the redistribution of the complete data. There are several custom private APIs that scrape HN already (see backtype for instance http://www.backtype.com/page/paulgraham.com%2Ffounders.html http://www.backtype.com/page/paulgraham.com%2Ffounders.html and http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3Fid%3Dpg http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3F... and http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/y-combinator-scraper/ http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/y-combinator-scraper/), and people don't seem to care the slightest. Not to mention there are open source tools to scrape HN by yourself: https://github.com/JackDanger/hacker_news https://github.com/JackDanger/hacker_news