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I'm definitely excited about the API and the future possibilities with it. Looks like a great start. I do have a few questions and suggestions, though. Is ther
by andrewstuart2 12y ago
I'm definitely excited about the API and the future possibilities with it. Looks like a great start. I do have a few questions and suggestions, though.
Is there any chance of getting more than just the top 100 stories returned? I think it will be a lot more useful for api consumers if you can use a query parameter to set the limit (within reason, usually 1,000) and a number of results to skip. For now, scraping is still more desirable to me since I can retrieve any number of results in their current order.
Better yet, but more complex: a number to skip and a certain timestamp so I don't see the same article on two pages due to natural upvoting, downvoting, or rank decay.
Also, if there's any flexibility still with property names, I'd suggest these changes for clearer semantics:
"deleted" -> "hidden" (since they're obviously not deleted)
"by" -> "author" (for more clarity)
"kids" -> "children" (the common convention)