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They 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. It
by jaredsohn 12y ago
They 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 :)