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It still a work in progress, but my plan is to release it on the launch day of iOS 8, with a lot more features. Like a Today widget and a share extension which
by dimillian 12y ago
It still a work in progress, but my plan is to release it on the launch day of iOS 8, with a lot more features. Like a Today widget and a share extension which will allow you to post to HN right from Safari.
Edit: I started an Hacker News Swift scraper, which is what SwiftHN use now, it's called Hacker Swifter: https://github.com/Dimillian/HackerSwifter https://github.com/Dimillian/HackerSwifter
It's highly inspired from LibHN (https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN) for the scrapping part at the moment.
Feedbacks and pull requests appreciated :)
- danudey 12y agoIt took me a few moments, but I think you mean 'scraper', and not 'scrapper'?
- dimillian 12y agoTotally ^^
- e15ctr0n 12y agoAre you seriously scraping or using the official Hacker News API[1]? [1] https://hn.algolia.io/api https://hn.algolia.io/api
- dimillian 12y agoWhat... wait what.... There is an official API and no one told ... what? Ok, I'm seriously scraping, and I seriously dislike it, sound like HackerSwifter will now use the API! Thanks! Edit: But there is no endpoint to have the top items, ask hn etc... right?
- e15ctr0n 12y agoOctopart initially provided the official API[1] and then Algolia took over early this year[2]. [1] https://www.hnsearch.com/api https://www.hnsearch.com/api [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130590 A lot of people seem to have used the API to build cool apps. https://hn.algolia.io/cool_apps https://hn.algolia.io/cool_apps I would read the docs first and jump to conclusions later.
- redox_ 12y agoLast Show HN: http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,show_hn http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,show_... Last Ask HN: http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,ask_hn http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,ask_h... Front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss You should be able to build something :)
- dang 12y agoWork is underway on an API to do all of this. Nick and Scott are hacking on it about three feet to my right just now. The days of scraping are numbered.
- jordanbrown 12y agoGreat news!
- dimillian 12y agoThis is awesome. So it'll be a new API or an extension of the Algolia API?
- dang 12y agoThe former.
- goblin89 12y agoYCombinator doesn't endorse Algolia's HN API in any public way, to my knowledge. This makes it just regular third-party API—reliable, convenient, better than scraping, but hardly ‘official’. (Yes, I'm being pedantic.)
- carbocation 12y agoIt seems to in the sense that Algolia powers the HN Search at the bottom of every window, and they are co-branded on those search pages. Also, https://hn.algolia.com/api https://hn.algolia.com/api
- goblin89 12y agoTrue that, I take back my comment.
- ihuman 12y agoHow is that official? I thought that was Algolia's API, not YC's
- e15ctr0n 12y agoAlgolia is a YC company and built the API for YC, which is as official as it gets.
- Alupis 12y agowould certainly be a lot less confusing if the api was actually hosted on the same domain. as-in: news.ycombinator.com/api or something... When I search for "news.ycombinator api" I get a bunch of irrelevant or very outdated links... https://www.google.com/#q=news.ycombinator+api https://www.google.com/#q=news.ycombinator+api
- serf 12y agoI agree, but it's good marketing. It associates the act of searching with the hostname 'algolia', which seems to be in their interest (being that their tagline is "Hosted cloud search as a service | AlgoliaSearch").
- miket 12y agoLooks great, Thomas. If you'd like to use Diffbot [1] to generate clean content summaries of the links for mobile, ala premii, I'd be happy to hook you up with some calls. [1] http://diffbot.com http://diffbot.com