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This is cool, nice to look at other projects analyzing this data. I publish HN Hiring Trends, http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/ http://www
by mountaineer 12y ago
This is cool, nice to look at other projects analyzing this data. I publish HN Hiring Trends, http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/ http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/ , that watches the various technology terms being mentioned in the postings.
Once thing I changed to was just including top level comments and no replies/discussion of the posting. Do you handle similarly?
- manlio 12y agoHN Hiring Trends is really sweet, I didn't know about it. I do include only top level comments; and incidentally, digging through HN's HTML code was... uhm... let's say a bit messy.
- mountaineer 12y agoYeah, I can imagine. HTML is really tricky. Why not use the API? With a few requests, you can query for and pull all of the whoishiring threads. Here's how I pull them all down: https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends/blob/master/lib/hiringtrends/program.rb#L48 https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends/blob/master/lib/hirin...