> Does the Algolia hackernews api ( the specific API this client uses ) still require you to query in a tree like fashion, every comment item id if you want an

> Does the Algolia hackernews api ( the specific API this client uses ) still require you to query in a tree like fashion, every comment item id if you want an entire page of comments? > Its extremely inefficient, to the point where I have a better time curling the HN web page and piping it through python beautifulsoup Yes it still does and yeah it's ridiculously inefficient. I have a couple tools I've written atop the HN API and all of them are forced to go async simply because the sheer # of page loads necessary to render a thread makes async almost a necessity.