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Ask HN: Is it OK to scrape HN comments and save for data collection?

• slater 5y ago
  A question best suited to be answered by e-mailing hn@ycombinator.com, I believe.
• finite_jest 5y ago
  You may not need scraping. HN has a rudimentary but functioning API [1], and there is dump on BigQuery [2]. [1]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API [2]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combinator/hacker-news https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...
  • megamix 5y ago
    Awesome!
• gus_massa 5y ago
  Note that there is an official API linked at the bottom.