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How to get data from Hacker News with unofficial HN API
- futhey 5y agoBut there is an official API? Is it bad? https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29627395.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29627395.json?pri... https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29630771.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29630771.json?pri...
- dang 5y agoPlease respect https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt, which asks people not to crawl the site more than once per 30s. HN's app server runs on a single core and we don't have a lot of performance to spare.