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What API do you want? Automated submissions of posts is not a good idea, so that leaves data scraping. If you're looking to extract data from HN, use HNSearch
by sillysaurus 14y ago
What API do you want? Automated submissions of posts is not a good idea, so that leaves data scraping.
If you're looking to extract data from HN, use HNSearch. http://www.hnsearch.com/ http://www.hnsearch.com/
There's no reason to scrape data from HN itself.
- duck 14y agoHNSearch is great and I use it for my Wayback Letter project, but it hasn't been around that long so I couldn't use it before. When I started Hacker Newsletter about 2.5 years ago there was nothing, so scraping was the only solution. One of these days I will convert the application I built to build out each issue, but there also is a risk of HNSearch going away just like the last search engine did.