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Not to discount your effort, but is there a benefit for scraping the data when HN offers an official API[1]? Does the API not expose all the data you need? [1]
by Etheryte 7y ago
Not to discount your effort, but is there a benefit for scraping the data when HN offers an official API[1]? Does the API not expose all the data you need?
[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- vstuart 7y agoGood to know; thank you. :-) I suppose the advantages (mine) may include keyword exclusions (I'm not sure if that functionality is available in the API), and local hosted (hence, more "private" -- whatever that means these days ;-) code.