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Thanks - yes, scripting is the way I'll go if I don't find another solution.

solardev 2y ago
I was just playing with something similar today... seems like Cloudflare Workers supports Puppeteer now, so you can easily use that to make a serverless API that runs a headless browser: https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform/puppeteer/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform...
- etewiah 2y ago
  Nice. I have scripted playwright in the past so I'll start with that and try the cloudflare option if I stumble on that.
- etewiah 2y ago
  Sorry, unrelated question. Do you happen to use some tool to find out when someone replies to you?
  - leros 2y ago
    There are a bunch of them out of there. I use this one: https://hackernewsalerts.com/ https://hackernewsalerts.com/
    - solardev 2y ago
      This is great, thanks! The "new replies in the last 24 hours" feature is great (not an email, just a dynamic query): https://hackernewsalerts.com/view-comments-replies/ https://hackernewsalerts.com/view-comments-replies/
  - solardev 2y ago
    Heh, I actually just go the "threads" link a few (uh... hundred?) times a day (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=etewiah https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=etewiah) and scroll through them manually. I don't always catch the replies, especially if they fall to the 2nd page or beyond. A sibling comment mentioned one service. https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/ is another one that I've used in the past, but it got too noisy (not spam, just frequent emails). I'd prefer an app with push notifications and proper threading. Like many others, I once tried building an alternative HN frontend with replies caching and push notifications, but the HN API is so barebones/lackluster and poorly documented that I gave up after a few days (basically, for anything that requires a login, you end up having to just scrape the HTML). Every once in a while, there's some talk of improving the API to make it more robust, but I don't think it's a priority for YCombinator. So old-school scrolling it is :)

I was just playing with something similar today... seems like Cloudflare Workers supports Puppeteer now, so you can easily use that to make a serverless API that runs a headless browser: https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform/puppeteer/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform...

etewiah 2y ago
Nice. I have scripted playwright in the past so I'll start with that and try the cloudflare option if I stumble on that.
etewiah 2y ago
Sorry, unrelated question. Do you happen to use some tool to find out when someone replies to you?
- leros 2y ago
  There are a bunch of them out of there. I use this one: https://hackernewsalerts.com/ https://hackernewsalerts.com/
  - solardev 2y ago
    This is great, thanks! The "new replies in the last 24 hours" feature is great (not an email, just a dynamic query): https://hackernewsalerts.com/view-comments-replies/ https://hackernewsalerts.com/view-comments-replies/
- solardev 2y ago
  Heh, I actually just go the "threads" link a few (uh... hundred?) times a day (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=etewiah https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=etewiah) and scroll through them manually. I don't always catch the replies, especially if they fall to the 2nd page or beyond. A sibling comment mentioned one service. https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/ is another one that I've used in the past, but it got too noisy (not spam, just frequent emails). I'd prefer an app with push notifications and proper threading. Like many others, I once tried building an alternative HN frontend with replies caching and push notifications, but the HN API is so barebones/lackluster and poorly documented that I gave up after a few days (basically, for anything that requires a login, you end up having to just scrape the HTML). Every once in a while, there's some talk of improving the API to make it more robust, but I don't think it's a priority for YCombinator. So old-school scrolling it is :)