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Show HN: I created a Chrome extension that reveals HN's hidden comment scores.

• tzs 15y ago
  How does it get the data?
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  • sharat87 15y ago
    Looking at the js file in the extension, I see an AJAX call made to this: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/... Not sure, but thriftdb might be the source. But, I'm curious too.
    • buddydvd 15y ago
      Yes. The comment score is queried from HNSearch's API. This extension was my submission to the HNSearch API contest under the name "HN Reveal": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672793 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2672793 Now, since the beginning of the API contest announcement, HNSearch's API does not reveal score for comments that are less than 5 days old. After studying the API, I figured out a way to bypass this restriction. If you construct a faceted query for the "points" field with a search query that is narrow enough to get exactly 1 hit, the facet result will reveal the vote score for that comment (e.g. "9 points" has 1 hit). When I submitted my entry to HNSearch, Andres emailed me back and told me to disable revealing vote scores for comments that are less than 5 days old. In addition, they modified their API to restrict my query.
      • patd 15y ago
        Just out of curiosity, why the 5 days restriction ?
        • buddydvd 15y ago
          Andres says "PG wants API apps to be consistent with the HN interface so we removed points for items < 5 days."
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