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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it. However, the biggest problem is finding such users. HNSearchAPI is not complete (for instance, fogus is not liste
by DanielRibeiro 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it.
However, the biggest problem is finding such users. HNSearchAPI is not complete (for instance, fogus is not listed when you search for "twitter"[1], but is when you search for "twitter.com"[2]).
Which requires quite a lot of crawling (the unnofficial api helps sometimes[3], and sometimes it doesn't[4]). And HN robots is quite restrictive[5]
[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&sortby=karma+desc http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&#...
[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.com&sortby=karma+desc&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.c...
[3] http://api.ihackernews.com/page http://api.ihackernews.com/page
[4] http://api.ihackernews.com/post/3118358 http://api.ihackernews.com/post/3118358
[5] http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt