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Are you seriously scraping or using the official Hacker News API[1]? [1] https://hn.algolia.io/api https://hn.algolia.io/api

dimillian 12y ago
What... 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 ago
  Octopart 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 ago
  Last 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 ago
  Work 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 ago
    Great news!
  - dimillian 12y ago
    This is awesome. So it'll be a new API or an extension of the Algolia API?
    - dang 12y ago
      The former.
- goblin89 12y ago
  YCombinator 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 ago
    It 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 ago
      True that, I take back my comment.
ihuman 12y ago
How is that official? I thought that was Algolia's API, not YC's
- e15ctr0n 12y ago
  Algolia is a YC company and built the API for YC, which is as official as it gets.
  - Alupis 12y ago
    would 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 ago
      I 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").

dimillian 12y ago

What... 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 ago
Octopart 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 ago
Last 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 ago
Work 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 ago
  Great news!
- dimillian 12y ago
  This is awesome. So it'll be a new API or an extension of the Algolia API?
  - dang 12y ago
    The former.
goblin89 12y ago
YCombinator 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 ago
  It 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 ago
    True that, I take back my comment.

ihuman 12y ago

How is that official? I thought that was Algolia's API, not YC's

e15ctr0n 12y ago
Algolia is a YC company and built the API for YC, which is as official as it gets.
- Alupis 12y ago
  would 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 ago
    I 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").