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This API is extremely unreliable and has a great deal of functionality missing as well (commenting, voting). The original developer is also no longer maintainin
by zainny 14y ago
This API is extremely unreliable and has a great deal of functionality missing as well (commenting, voting). The original developer is also no longer maintaining it. I tried to build an Hacker News app using it some time ago and abandoned the idea very quickly.
Hacker News needs a real API.
- DanielRibeiro 14y agoI have been using it for a few years now. It does give a error quite often (1 out of 10 requests on average), but for what I'm using, it is pretty solid (as long as I retry when these errors occur). The lack of functionality: it had it. The problem is that it not only required user/password, but it also was caught into HN's safety net, that prevents multiple accounts from the same IP to do a lot of stuff. So it can work as library, but not as a server-side API. Therefore he removed it. For another project of mine[1], I used Hacker News search API[2], which is really consistent, and really powerful, and is maintained by the the yc company that does ThriftDB[3] [1]http://hnwho.com/ http://hnwho.com/ [2] http://www.hnsearch.com/api http://www.hnsearch.com/api [3] http://venturebeatprofiles.com/news/view/y-combinator?article=398456 http://venturebeatprofiles.com/news/view/y-combinator?articl...
- ronnier 14y agoThe reason that it's so unreliable is that my server's IP address gets banned by YC when the requests are to fast, and I have it hosted on a small cheap server. There are ways around this, but it just isn't worth the time or money.