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Algolia scrapes HN HTML and provides their own API from what it looks like.
by zuck9 12y ago
Algolia scrapes HN HTML and provides their own API from what it looks like.
- jaredsohn 12y agoThey don't scrape it. From the hnsearch about page: "Every 2 minutes, the last 1000 HN items (stories, comments, polls) are sent to Algolia's indexing API. Items from the last 48 hours are refreshed every hour."
- redox_ 12y agoCorrect, and we're planning to move to the new official API ASAP (instead of the legacy one -> it was not web crawler but far from perfect) for the indexing. Regarding the REST APIs, let's keep both for now :)