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HN Insights: Playing with Hacker News Data

• alonkad 12y ago
  Nice post and app
• biton13 12y ago
  Nice one... Can I try it?
• minimaxir 12y ago
  Please don't use sockpuppets to comment and upvote. (which is especially a shame as I'm a fan of this topic)
  • fxenik 12y ago
    Yeap, sorry about that, a colleague from the office..
• mpakos 12y ago
  Interesting "toy". I would use a "better" API documentation though
  • fxenik 12y ago
    I will probably write some better documentation if I see some interest in the API (though I understand that good documentation promotes interest). My main intention was to expose this experiment fast and build on it afterwards.
• jcr 12y ago
  You're using the Hacker News Search API from Algolia (which is great), but you'll probably want to read about the main HN API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422599 https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
  • minimaxir 12y ago
    The official API has no option for bulk requests. Otherwise I'd be using it too. :)
    • jcr 12y ago
      Would this help you with bulk requests? https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss
  • fxenik 12y ago
    I've read the post it about the new hacker news API based on firebase and was very excited about it. The main reason I did not use it was because I wanted to draft something quick (for now at least) and I ended up using a node.js module that actually wrapped around Algolia's API. The problem with the firebase API is that I would have to make lots of subsequent request to get data for each story.