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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 on
by 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 agoAs 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