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Unofficial Hacker News Streaming API

• minimaxir 13y ago
  What are the API limits?
  • jkarneges 13y ago
    No limits at this time. :)
    • minimaxir 13y ago
      Interesting. Thanks!
• runT1ME 13y ago
  What is the feasibility of using this (and a lot of other code) to take HN and actually real time-ify it? I wonder how easy it'd be to make that code generalized so you could 'real time' any site that is mostly updating text. Could be applicable to reddit too, etc.
• LukeWalsh 13y ago
  I'm curious about your choice to use fanout.io. It looks like they are similar to firebase, but less feature rich?
  • jkarneges 13y ago
    Disclaimer: I work on fanout.io, so there's that. ;) What's nice about fanout.io is that it makes APIs like HNStream easy to build and scale, while remaining invisible to clients. One cannot use firebase to create a custom realtime HTTP API like has been done here. Firebase does have other features like data storage, though. IMO the two services serve different purposes.