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Unfortunately like most of our anti-abuse measures it's surprisingly simple and would be easy to circumvent.
by pg 13y ago
Unfortunately like most of our anti-abuse measures it's surprisingly simple and would be easy to circumvent.
- wslh 13y agoSorry to hijack the thread but now that you will have more time in your hands... can we have an option to download our data from HN? I mean my submissions, saved articles, and comments. Thanks!
- minimaxir 13y agoYou can use the API to download your submissions and comments extremely easily, too.
- wslh 13y agoWhich official API? And... the saved articles are not public. If you are referring to the new hn.algolia.com this is far (rate limit?) from being a data liberation initiative. Even Google and Facebook are much better.
- minimaxir 13y agoWith the Algolia API, you can request 1000 stories or 1000 comments per request. I don't think you'll hit the rate limit. :P Here are your 1000 out of your 1248 comments: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=comment,author_wslh&hitsPerPage=1000 https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=comment,au... And here are 1000 out of your 1548 submitted stories: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,author_wslh&hitsPerPage=1000 https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,auth... You can pagenate each endpoint on the created_at_i parameter to get the rest. I can write up a data liberation script if you want.
- wslh 13y agoThanks! I also need to web scrape HN to retrieve my saved articles. It will be useful to use users credentials with the API.
- pasbesoin 13y agoDo situations such as this cause you to reflect further upon the role(s) of information asymmetry in systems and society? If so, I'd be curious about your thoughts in the context of one of your essays, if they were ever to come to such. I continue to reflect upon this, for myself. But you write better and sometimes rather elucidating essays.