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I started this to specifically dump my saved stories to an XML feed, which I hook up to http://ifttt.com http://ifttt.com and auto-import into Pinboard. Working

I started this to specifically dump my saved stories to an XML feed, which I hook up to http://ifttt.com http://ifttt.com and auto-import into Pinboard. Working great, so far. I know there are a bunch of HN CLIs out there, but none handle saved stories (the only thing this supports, right now).

pyre 15y ago
Mine only does saved stories. Though it's in Perl, not Python. It was whipped up in response to a complaint several months ago. It just never had a Show HN. Http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
- draegtun 15y ago
  Shame you didn't do a Show HN because it looks interesting/promising so thanks for pointing me to it. In return I can give you a clickable link :) http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/ http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
- ez77 15y ago
  in response to a complaint What kind of complaint?
  - pyre 15y ago
    Someone was complaining in the comments that there was no easy way to get the full list of saved stories back out of HN. I whipped up this script to do that in response. It had been an idea I was batting around in the past, but the comment provided the motivation to create it. edit: Looked up the thread, and turns out it was an inquiry, and not a complaint. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479416 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479416
- ez77 15y ago
  Item #N I'm learning on HN today: .netrc! I read that I need a "machine remote_hostname token pair". What should I use for remote_hostname in this case? Thanks!
  - ez77 15y ago
    Self-answer, for anyone interested. It's in the source code [1]: die "Error: No matches for news.ycombinator.com in ~/.netrc." [1] https://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/blob/master/hn-profile https://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/blob/master/hn-profil...
- dmn001 15y ago
  Last week I had also written the same thing in Perl to login and handle saved stories, and then add them to a folder in Instapaper.
narag 15y ago
Thank you very much, I've been wanting to do that for a long time.

pyre 15y ago

Mine only does saved stories. Though it's in Perl, not Python. It was whipped up in response to a complaint several months ago. It just never had a Show HN. Http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/

draegtun 15y ago
Shame you didn't do a Show HN because it looks interesting/promising so thanks for pointing me to it. In return I can give you a clickable link :) http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/ http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
ez77 15y ago
in response to a complaint What kind of complaint?
- pyre 15y ago
  Someone was complaining in the comments that there was no easy way to get the full list of saved stories back out of HN. I whipped up this script to do that in response. It had been an idea I was batting around in the past, but the comment provided the motivation to create it. edit: Looked up the thread, and turns out it was an inquiry, and not a complaint. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479416 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479416
ez77 15y ago
Item #N I'm learning on HN today: .netrc! I read that I need a "machine remote_hostname token pair". What should I use for remote_hostname in this case? Thanks!
- ez77 15y ago
  Self-answer, for anyone interested. It's in the source code [1]: die "Error: No matches for news.ycombinator.com in ~/.netrc." [1] https://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/blob/master/hn-profile https://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/blob/master/hn-profil...
dmn001 15y ago
Last week I had also written the same thing in Perl to login and handle saved stories, and then add them to a folder in Instapaper.

narag 15y ago

Thank you very much, I've been wanting to do that for a long time.