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Does this not work with upper case letters? I only get "Internal Server Error 34".

• padolsey 2y ago
  Yikes you're right. I need to come up with a way to solve that. Maybe a param or path to lock in the username like abc.at.hn/Abc ... I'll have a go. EDIT: for now I'm tired and off to bed but if someone has a graceful/simple way to handle the non-lowercase usernames, please come forward.
  • diggan 2y ago
    > if someone has a graceful/simple way to handle the non-lowercase usernames, please come forward. Graceful? No. But simple? Yes. Scrape every single username on HN to some local storage (even a file on disk would be enough, HN is relatively tiny), then lowercase all of them into a second column in the file. Refresh this file once per day. Now you have a map of UserName <> username that you can use for lookups :)
  • tracker1 2y ago
    HN seems to support using lowercased names for the /user?id=(lowercased-name) ... if you just need to translate for lookup. Not sure about things like underscores or other characters.