The issue tracker on <a href="https://github.com/HackerNews/API" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HackerNews&#x2F;API</a> appears to be disabled, though the summary says &quot;Documentation, Samples, and Issue Tracking for the Official HN API.&quot;

The GitHub repo is inaccessible because it is private.

<a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;arc.html</a>

What&#x27;s the Arc rendering engine? Google didn&#x27;t help

They don&#x27;t scrape it.From the hnsearch about page:&quot;Every 2 minutes, the last 1000 HN items (stories, comments, polls) are sent to Algolia&#x27;s indexing API. Items from the last 48 hours are refreshed every hour.&quot;

Algolia scrapes HN HTML and provides their own API from what it looks like.

The &#x27;delay&#x27; field has been there for years. I vaguely remember pg announcing it here when he added it, so we could probably dig up the exact date.

There&#x27;s a cheat to work around that limit: use the created_at_i parameter.Example: <a href="https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-download-all-stories/blob/master/hacker_news_getallstories.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;hacker-news-download-all-storie...</a>

I&#x27;m also curious whether it removes some of the limitations of the Algolia version; I wanted to download my content for some statistical analysis (notes at <a href="http://www.gwern.net/HN" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;HN</a> ) but I discovered that it seems there&#x27;s some hard limits to how much of my data I can reach: <a href="https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/36" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;algolia&#x2F;hn-search&#x2F;pull&#x2F;36</a>

&gt; &quot;Delay&quot; field post by pg on 2008-06-29
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=231024</a>

How does this differ from the Algolia HN API in terms of data access? (<a href="https://hn.algolia.com/api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;api</a>) I was able to download all HN data recently with ease using that endpoint. Authentication?EDIT: After looking at the documentation there are two new aspects of the Firebase API not in the Algolia API:1) Ability to see deleted&#x2F;dead stories.2) Endpoint for user data.Question to kogir&#x2F;dang: Has the &quot;delay&quot; field (Delay in minutes between a comment&#x27;s creation and its visibility to other users) always been there?

That doesn&#x27;t worry you at all? Were any alternatives considered?

Rate limit is up to Firebase. We&#x27;ll see if we can get them to answer.

Any kind of rate limitations with the REST API we should be made aware of?

This implies that your SDKs don&#x27;t use your own REST API. What do they use instead?

Thanks for answering.I&#x27;d rather use the REST API directly, for what I need is rather simple and not downloading, installing and maintaining an SDK is more appealing. (My app was developed a while ago and was doing HTML scraping, but the 30-second limit on HN killed it, because of testing -- I don&#x27;t need to query more often than twice per minute, but while testing I ran the thing a little too often).So, what are the limits on the REST API, and how do limits work? (A max number of requests per hour would be better than per minute for example).

[Firebase Dev Advocate here]
We don&#x27;t currently have rate limits. I&#x27;d recommend using our SDKs, they handle connections more efficiently than dealing with the REST API. You can also run your own server process using our Node (<a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/firebase" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;firebase</a>) or Java libraries (<a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/android/quickstart.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;android&#x2F;quickstart.html</a>).

Any kind of rate limitations we should be made aware of?

Well personally, I didn&#x27;t want to install any browser add-ons.  I also had some other ideas, like aggregating reddit and hackernews posts, but would need to scrape for that (unless there&#x27;s an external api I&#x27;m missing).

Why do you need an API to replace only CSS? You can do that with an extension like Stylish&#x2F;Greasemonkey.

Yay! I&#x27;ve been wanting something like this to come out. I&#x27;ve been playing around with some new tech stacks and built a css replacer of hacker news, but always wanted an actual api to make it easier.<a href="http://jmaat.me/hn" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jmaat.me&#x2F;hn</a>There&#x27;s a bunch of css pages that come out for hacker news, but I couldn&#x27;t find anything that aggregates them. This will be alot easier to extend and customize the site.I&#x27;m not seeing any api&#x27;s for the jobs or show sections though? Hopefully this might come in the future?

We&#x27;ll probably start with logged out home to a percentage of traffic and work our way to updating the rest of the site and handling the full traffic over a few weeks.If people need help converting their apps, I believe the Firebase guys have offered to help. Contact us at api@ycombinator.com and we&#x27;ll connect you.

Maybe they can put the new renderer on a different sub domain for a few weeks after their 3 week deadline.  One to beta test the interface and two to give devs a bit more time to convert.

Some sites actively punish scrapers by constantly, purposely changing their markup. So giving them an API and 3 week head start is leaps and bounds above and beyond what can be expected. When you operate a scraper, you are always on the defensive when it comes to site updates suddenly breaking your app. They should be so lucky to get this 3 week notice. It is all on them if they can&#x27;t turn it around in time.

A preview release &#x2F; staging version would help those of us with scrapers update it, without having a so much downtime &#x2F; scramble when it&#x27;s finally released.

As someone who poured countless hours into meticulously scraping the HN markup and faces the prospect of having to port all my code with dread, I&#x27;ll probably be pleading for an extension alongside you.

Might be easier&#x2F;quicker to use the API to generate your own HN clone with HTML in it&#x27;s current format, then point your App at that

I really appreciate giving a 3 week heads up before moving to a new frontend structure. It&#x27;s a nice gesture, but I have this horrible feeling that there&#x27;s only about a 10% chance that my Hacker News app gets updated in time.I know you can&#x27;t not iterate because people are scraping, but it does stink. At least this will make everything more future-proof going forward.However, it may be nice to give a bit more heads up than 3 weeks. I know a lot of apps can take ~2 weeks to get through the review process for iOS.

Yeah, unfortunately, I&#x27;m trying to not use any closed source stuff in the app. Going to write some service layer stuff for it

If you use the Firebase SDKs the request is sent over a reused full duplex socket rather than creating new&#x2F;individual connections.

Very cool, I&#x27;m glad I prepped my android app for this :DOne question: why the choice of returning everything as an ID, on mobile, this will require a lot of very small network requests.

Oh this will be cool, and I really look forward to being able to read HN on a phone or tablet in the future without all the zooming and scrolling!It will be interesting to see if it has an impact on site traffic, how much of that traffic is scrapers today?

Um, how about, no?<pre><code> var time = new Date(&quot;&lt;ISO-8601 string&gt;&quot;) &#x2F;&#x2F; in Javascript

 time = DateTime.iso8601(&quot;&lt;ISO-8601 string&gt;&quot;) # in Ruby
</code></pre>
Aaaand it&#x27;s human readable! Aaaaand it works before the Unix epoch!EDIT:Changed DateTime.parse to DateTime.iso8601, to be even more retentive.Look, parent claimed that parsing ISO strings is hard (it&#x27;s not, especially if you&#x27;re consuming a web api on a modern web language) and that it was more readable (which is so clearly wrong I have no words).As for being more accurate, again no. The range is worse (lol wraparound if you&#x27;re using a 32-bit int), there isn&#x27;t explicit support for fractional seconds, doesn&#x27;t map onto UTC cleanly, doesn&#x27;t handle leap seconds, and so on.It&#x27;s only &quot;easier&quot; if you don&#x27;t actually care about a human-readable timestamp that is robust and if you desire to do date parsing yourself instead of using any of the well-established libraries out there. Ugh.

How is it more accurate? ISO-8601 allows for leap seconds, it uses the same second counting frequency as the Unix timestamp, it can represent dates before 1970 and after 2038 (64-bit Unix timestamps will also.) and it&#x27;s an international standard.There are very few good reasons to choose a Unix timestamp to represent a date when compared with ISO-8601.

UNIX time is actually much easier to parse and more accurate. Almost all platforms (even Windows[0]) have a way to convert a UNIX time into a culture specific local time.What you&#x27;re asking for is a string you have to parse. That&#x27;s a lot more work and there is a lot more that can go wrong.[0]<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/249760/how-to-convert-unix-timestamp-to-datetime-and-vice-versa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;249760&#x2F;how-to-convert-un...</a>

Ah, cool. There was no warning of that fact--maybe you could add that?

[Firebase Dev Advocate]
@angersock - the &quot;about&quot; value you&#x27;re seeing on the Firebase Dashboard isn&#x27;t broken, it&#x27;s just a truncated preview. The HN team is using email for issues, so you can send them any feedback at api@ycombinator.com.

Why do you have all the times in Unix time instead of ISO-8601 UTC?EDIT: Also, the &quot;about&quot; value in the users api appears to be truncated. Compare...<a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/angersock#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;user&#x2F;angersock#</a>...with...<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=angersock" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=angersock</a>EDIT2: Note that the JSON is correct, but the preview in the firebase API seems to be broken.EDIT3: No issue tracker on the Github? Laaaame.

This is a very good news. Made my day. Thank you.

How does this API work with Firebase?Is HN data already in Firebase (as its primary data store) or is content from HN&#x27;s DB getting &#x27;mirrored&#x2F;cloned&#x27; on-demand to Firebase for the API?

[Firebase founder here] This is pretty exciting for us, we&#x27;re glad kogir, dang, kevin and sctb chose to expose HN&#x27;s data through Firebase. We&#x27;re seen quite a few startups (and big companies like Nest) do this, since building, maintaining, and documenting a public API often isn&#x27;t a easy task.

As soon as someone uses this API to create a replica of the site where everything else is the same, but the design is responsive, I want to know about it :)

It&#x27;d be interesting to see if including an URL in the body of a post has any effect on votes received.

I would be interested to know the average hourly cost of HN in lost productivity :)

That&#x27;s some pretty impressive analysis, nice visualizations too. Thank you for doing all that hard work!

It would be interesting to redo the top karma list by comment karma only. It would also be interesting to look at liberal vs conservative political sentiment over time. I feel like the site has gotten more liberal over the years, especially after all the Chelsea Manning stuff, but not sure if that is accurate.

In February, I did an analysis on all Hacker News stories: <a href="http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minimaxir.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;hacking-hacker-news&#x2F;</a>Yesterday, I published an analysis on all Hacker News comments: <a href="http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minimaxir.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;hn-comments-about-comments&#x2F;</a>There&#x27;s a lot of interesting trends in the data. Let me know if you want to know anything in particular and I&#x27;ll get back to you. :)

&quot;Impressive&quot; is one word for it, I guess.

We&#x27;re all eating the elephant one byte at a time. With 193,000+ karma his average item gets about six upvotes&#x2F;resubmissions.

You can get a &#x27;prettier&#x27; version by removing .json entirely:<a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/tptacek" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;user&#x2F;tptacek</a>

tptacek is similarly impressive, with 30,051 posts.<a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/tptacek.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;user&#x2F;tptacek.json?prin...</a>

Oops, Application Error. You getting the HN effect?

Here are some line charts of his posting history: <a href="http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/user/patio11/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnuser.herokuapp.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;patio11&#x2F;</a>Click on the line chart to do an hnsearch for the time period.Update: Site should be back up. It crashes occasionally (that&#x27;s part of why I hadn&#x27;t post it yet.)

I&#x27;m speechless. Honestly, the content is so expansive and valuable. I love the internet, hackernews, physics, code, knowledge, and the tiny things in between :)

his or her commentsThe book is copyrighted by Ed Weissman, so although it&#x27;s possible &quot;Ed&quot; is short for &quot;Edna,&quot; the higher probability can be assigned to &quot;his&quot; in this case.

Another frequent contributor, edw519, has published an ebook of his or her comments: <a href="http://hn.my/edw519" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.my&#x2F;edw519</a>

off the top of my head: highest value word patio11 writes is &quot;more&quot; or &quot;raise&quot;...

It checks out, I put in TempleOS and got out Genesis: &quot;We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.&quot;

How about feeding the top 20 into Bingo Card Creator?

Interesting - you rate limited your requests, and I multithreaded mine :p (with x10 I downloaded your comments in &lt;3 minutes).From <a href="https://www.firebase.com/pricing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;pricing.html</a> it looks like the top plan supports 10k concurrent connections, so I suspect the impact is negligable.Thanks for being an outrageously good resource and beacon of inspiration! You&#x27;ve unknowingly been one of the most influential role models in my career&#x2F;life: I just relaunched one of my side projects as SaaS last month and it&#x27;s succeeded beyond my wildest expectations (already at ~$8k YRR). Hopefully I can follow your trajectory and never have to actually work another day in my life :)

Thanks, I had been curious about that number for a while. The last time I checked it was 500k or so.For folks who want to do interesting things with the API but don&#x27;t want to be abusive to Firebase&#x27;s servers, I whipped up a quick ruby script to cache a particular user&#x27;s comments&#x2F;submissions on disk: <a href="https://gist.github.com/patio11/1550cad3a02edd175049" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;patio11&#x2F;1550cad3a02edd175049</a>It tries to rate limit itself by putting 200ms of sleep between requests, so downloading all of my comments would take ~30 minutes.&quot;I release this work unto the public domain.&quot; -- feel free to adapt it to your needs.Usage is &quot;ruby slurper.rb $USERNAME $MAX_COMMENTS_TO_FETCH.&quot;

Oh man you guys, patio11 has generated massive amounts of content: <a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/patio11.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;user&#x2F;patio11.json?prin...</a>I count 8,483 submissions. I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s something interesting to be done with all of this data. A word frequency chart?---Edit: So apparently there&#x27;s a ruby gem that lets you feed it a body of text and generates pseudo-random phrases based on that text.I present to you the patio11 impersonator: <a href="https://gist.github.com/christiangenco/e8d085e47479be0131e1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;christiangenco&#x2F;e8d085e47479be0131e1</a>One of my favorites:<pre><code> A nice set of challenges -- kitty at a school with tens of thousands of bucks a year or less immediately.
</code></pre>
---Also, a word count on patio11&#x27;s submissions: 1,052,351. For comparison, all 7 Harry Potter books total 1,084,170 words. patio11 has written the entire Harry Potter series worth of content on HN. Just... wow.

Great news! Can we add endpoints for &quot;Show HN&quot; and &quot;Ask HN&quot; too though? I don&#x27;t see an easy way to get them.

This is a big question for me too. It sounds like you need to fetch every id from the REST API. I need to test the iOS (and you Android) SDK.

I&#x27;m also currently writing a scraper[1] for the HN frontpage (for my WIP Hacker News redesign), and while there&#x27;s a limited Algolia API available, it doesn&#x27;t do much good if users can&#x27;t post comments, upvote etc. Same goes for the official one now.So, @anyone involved with the API project, can you give us an estimate on when will the OAuth-based user-specific API be rolled out? I&#x27;m fining with pausing my efforts until then, if it&#x27;s going to be soon, in order to go a less complex and error-prone path.[1]: <a href="https://github.com/geomaster/hnop/blob/master/backend/src/hnparser.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;geomaster&#x2F;hnop&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;backend&#x2F;src&#x2F;hn...</a>

[Firebase Employee]If you use the SDKs, we handle the connection and all of the data is sent over a reused full duplex socket rather than individual requests. <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/android/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;android&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/ios/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ios&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;web&#x2F;</a>

Yes. While with HTTP pipelining you can request them all over a single TCP connection using a single SSL session, you will need to make an HTTP request for each item you want.If you&#x27;re on a supported platform, the Firebase SDKs handle all this efficiently and can even provide real-time change notifications.

Here&#x27;s an example showing all topstories and updating in realtime. Obviously, in JS, but the other Firebase SDKs are similar: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/96voj1xh/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;firebase&#x2F;96voj1xh&#x2F;</a>

[Firebase Dev Advocate]
@airlocksoftware - Yes, you should make separate requests for each story. You can attach a listener to the topstories node (<a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/guide/retrieving-data.html#section-event-types" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firebase.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;web&#x2F;guide&#x2F;retrieving-data.html...</a>) and when that’s triggered, you can make a request for the data on each story. Using the Firebase SDK, each request will get made using the same connection. I&#x27;d recommend using our SDK instead of the REST API so you don&#x27;t have to worry about managing your own connections and retries.

Thanks! I think you&#x27;ll like the new version whenever it gets finished :)

just wanted to let you know that I love your application!

I&#x27;m not blaming you. It just feels bad, you know? I&#x27;ll definitely email you in the future about stuff like this. And don&#x27;t get me wrong, it will be great to be able to throw out the cruft that comes along with parsing the current layout. The app is engineered to be able to drop in a new API pretty quick since I thought something like this would happen eventually.It would help me out a lot if the current front end would live on under oldnews.ycombinator.com like that until the new API has write access, though. I think it&#x27;s pretty cool to be able to be reading an article somewhere else, click &quot;Share&quot; in Android and have &quot;Submit to HN&quot; pop up in the results.

I&#x27;m sorry you just invested a lot of time in scraping. I know from experience what a pain that is. We said several times that the API was coming, and I&#x27;ve made it clear to anyone who asked, but there&#x27;s just no way to reach everybody. All: in the future, please get answers to questions like this by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.Re write access and logged-in access, if that turns out to be how people want to use the API, that&#x27;s the direction we&#x27;ll go. But we think it&#x27;s important to launch an initial release and develop it based on feedback. There are many other use cases for this data besides building a full-featured client: analyzing history, providing notifications, and so on. It will be fascinating to see what people build!

Oh, I&#x27;m well aware. I&#x27;ve had to push many quick fixes when some field gets renamed, etc. It&#x27;s really not the API change that bothers me, more the lack of features. But hopefully they can add those things soon and I can re-enable them down the road.

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I&#x27;ve invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN.This definitely does suck. I feel your pain. But it&#x27;s also part of the package of scraping websites. You go in knowing that it could break at any time.

I, for one, was just thinking about writing a scraper...Thanks very much guys!

I remember it was announced a few month ago.

Because it can be better designed, use common design &#x2F; navigation patterns of your mobile OS, notify you when you get a reply, change the text size, change the theme, have richer animations, and allow you to automatically share content from other applications directly to HN?

Because the website looks terrible on a phone&#x2F;small screen. I visit ihackernews.com more often than I actually visit news.ycombinator.com

The API can be used to create a mobile friendly site, since the official one is not for some odd reason.

Ideally those in charge of HN would have simply employed someone - they had offers starting at free I gather from previous threads - to make HN mobile friendly. Failing that apps are just patching the original site. I too decry this form of progress (replacing web access with apps that only fix the borked site) but it&#x27;s not hard to see why people should want that.

Mobile websites work poorly on my Moto G. Apps are smooth and pleasant to use.

So why, in the first place, would I want another mobile app rather than just opening the fully functional website (which is pretty simple &amp; basic already) on my mobile browser?

I did use your app for learning purposes - I studied the code quite a lot when learning Android. Thanks for good job !

Just wanted to drop a comment on the awesomeness of your app.
Hacker News 2 is by far the best Hacker News app, not just on Android, but on all mobile platforms i&#x27;ve tried (so, iOS, Android and Windows Phone)
Awesome work you are doing.

Exactly. Is this really the case, or it just isn&#x27;t documented? I&#x27;ve send an email to api@ycombinator.com about that and hopefuly, I will be able to shed some light on this, later. I will write as soon as I get a response. (assuming someone responds)

Yeah, I like it a lot, but I&#x27;ve put tons of time into my scraper for Reader YC (<a href="https://github.com/krruzic/Reader-YC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krruzic&#x2F;Reader-YC</a>). I support everything but polls currently. This api is nice but my scraper actually supports more... No option to get Show HN, Ask HN or New afaik. Still glad this is out!

Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I&#x27;ve done that so it should update for you soon.

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I&#x27;ve invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN.<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksoftware.hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.airlocksof...</a>The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I&#x27;m fine with switching to a new API (Square&#x27;s Retrofit will make it super easy to switch), but without submitting, commenting, and upvote support I have to disable a bunch of features I worked really hard on. Also it would&#x27;ve been cool to know this was coming about 3 months ago so I didn&#x27;t waste my time.Anyways, quick question on how it works -- when I query for the list of top stories<a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;topstories.json?print=...</a>it just returns a list of ids. Do I have to make a separate request for each story<a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;item&#x2F;8863.json?print=p...</a>)to assemble them into a list for the front page, or am I missing something?

For my twitter bot <a href="https://twitter.com/hn_bot_top1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hn_bot_top1</a> I use <a href="http://api.ihackernews.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.ihackernews.com&#x2F;</a> at the moment. This works but the site (and the API) is quite often not available. So I&#x27;ll probably switch to the new API as soon as I have some spare time...

You&#x27;re using the app, or the scrapping engine (Hacker Swifter)?The nice thing is that HackerSwifter public API is already in a quite finished state for the available functions, even if I switch to the API, the method calls will be the same.

Please do convert it, I am working on a project with some of your code as a base!

So, does it mean I can get the top stories, and then get a top story item with all the comment expanded ? I mean, at first it look like it just send me the id and I need to fetch the detail for each of them. Again, this is just looking at the REST API, not the iOS SDK for example.I&#x27;ll need to &quot;convert&quot; SwiftHN (<a href="https://github.com/Dimillian/SwiftHN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dimillian&#x2F;SwiftHN</a>) either to this new API or adapt my scrapping engine to the new site layout.

Great news, I&#x27;ve avoided touching my iPad reader because of the whole scraping issue to get at some of the data. Now I can justify updating for iOS8 + the new API. (just hope it gets approved in time)

HN uses 12 lines of javascript total, it&#x27;s pretty damn simple.

&#x27;Simple site&#x27; that gets probably tens of thousand if not hundreds of throusand unique visitors a day.

I believe the whole idea of having multiple people working on it permanently was only introduced six months to a year ago(?) And it seems like big changes are happening underneath us, mostly in terms of story quality: <a href="https://twitter.com/sama/status/519240112907894784" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sama&#x2F;status&#x2F;519240112907894784</a>

I hope not - what if that one man gets hit by a bus?I always assumed HN was more of an operations challenge rather then a purely algorithmic one. Lotsa traffic I assume. Not sure about the scope of user&#x2F;comment moderation around here but something tells me their item ranking system just might be that good.

I always thought HN was more of a one man job. I didn&#x27;t realize there is an entire team working on it (full time?). Honestly there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much to work on here. It&#x27;s a simple site that rarely changes (at least on the front end).

HN is getting a mobile-optimized site?Best news I&#x27;ve heard all day!

What you&#x27;re getting there is how the comment text happens to be stored (and presumably always has been). We&#x27;ve talked about changing that, because it would allow us to do some implementation improvements like... well, I forget just now. Might have had to do with caching. Anyhow, if enough people want it, we&#x27;ll bump up the priority.

&gt; (which is a mess even if you ignore all the tables – for example, the first paragraph in a comment usually isn&#x27;t wrapped in &lt;p&gt; tags)Oh, that&#x27;s in the actual API.<a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8422922.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;item&#x2F;8422922.json?prin...</a>I strongly hope they add a plain-text field for returned comments.

Also, while they don&#x27;t have a Windows Phone API I previously wrote a COM Windows Scripting API to use it via Chackra from an ASP.Net app.I think it&#x27;s even easier now that JS is a supported app language.

Well unfortunately there&#x27;s no Firebase SDK for Windows Phone&#x2F;C#&#x2F;WinRT, and the WebSocket API is undocumented.EDIT: After having played with the JS SDK a bit I&#x27;d like to add that it is indeed incredibly awesome.

Use the Firebase libraries rather than the REST one to efficiently handle requests. I believe it uses a websocket internally. &quot;It does all the work for you and is awesome.&quot; to quote Nick.

I&#x27;ve tried your app, it&#x27;s functional but obviously I wasn&#x27;t satisfied with any of the existing options which is why I wrote my own ;) It should be coming out this week, just a few finishing touches now...

Great you&#x27;re here. I&#x27;m using this app, but I&#x27;m sorry to say this... It&#x27;s pretty bad.Here&#x27;s a list of issues that I encounter very often:- It often crashes during startup- There are massive encoding issues, I see question mark symbols pretty often.- Comments often won&#x27;t load, without any error message whatsoever.I uninstalled the app multiple times for these reasons, but unfortunately there isn&#x27;t anything that&#x27;s better.

Or use my Hacker News client for Windows Phone:<a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/hacker-news/a5275a3f-6611-48f6-bd62-7382eda4c028" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowsphone.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;store&#x2F;app&#x2F;hacker-news&#x2F;a527...</a>

See if this helps:
<a href="http://filr.io/channel/hackernews/stream" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;filr.io&#x2F;channel&#x2F;hackernews&#x2F;stream</a>queryparams:
pageSize (no of items to return in one go)
before (takes an epoch timestamp and returns results before that timestamp)this is a stream of HN stories that have made it to the front page, in order of the time that they made it to the frontapge.

I&#x27;ve been working on a Hacker News client for Windows Phone over the past several weeks and am very close to an initial release, so I feel somewhat ambivalent about this.On the one hand, of course it&#x27;s great that HN is finally getting a proper API and also modernizing its markup (which is a mess even if you ignore all the tables – for example, the first paragraph in a comment usually isn&#x27;t wrapped in &lt;p&gt; tags), but on the other hand this current v0 version is very lacking and impractical for a regular client application.Since the top stories (limited to 100) and child comments are only available as a list of IDs a client app would have to make a separate HTTP request for every single item, which is obviously not something you&#x27;d want to do especially in a mobile environment. Other lists apart from the top stories (new, show, ask, best, active etc.) don&#x27;t seem to be available at all right now.Of course this is just the first version, and the documentation promises improvements over time – which I don&#x27;t doubt at all – but there&#x27;s no clear indication that the API will be at feature-parity with the current website, even excluding anything that requires authentication, by October 28. So this means that I – and other developers of client apps or unofficial APIs – will probably have to write new scraping code once the new rendering engine (which I assume refers to the website) arrives instead of being able to switch to the new API immediately.Now I guess I might just be needlessly worried, especially since the blog post explicitly says that the new API &quot;should hopefully making switching your apps fairly painless&quot;, but then why not wait until it&#x27;s actually ready for that before making the announcement? Putting a half-baked API out there a few days&#x2F;weeks (?) in advance before it&#x27;s fully fleshed out doesn&#x27;t seem all that helpful, at least to me.

Could you elaborate? I assume you are criticizing HN or the complaining programmers but I can&#x27;t tell which.

slight nitpick: i agree with you (i.e i dont think people should be complaining about the markup) but this issue is not that obvious when the &quot;users&quot; are the &quot;programmers&quot; complaining....

Listening to programmers complaining about the markup used to implement HN is a perfect example of tech folks not focusing on the users.

and one showing all top stories updating in realtime. Obviously, in JS, but the other Firebase SDKs are similar: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/96voj1xh/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;firebase&#x2F;96voj1xh&#x2F;</a>

Here&#x27;s a simple example that displays the top story and votes using the Firebase JS SDK (and updates in realtime): <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/cm8ne9nh/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;firebase&#x2F;cm8ne9nh&#x2F;</a>

Daniel, I understand. Do you or any others at Y-Combinator have any thoughts on how the hacker community could experiment in the areas I mention above, or whether you guys even think such experimentation would be valuable?

There are many legitimate views on this, but FWIW mine differs from yours. I believe that anonymity actually is important for a site like Hacker News, and the odds of us ever publishing the vote data—even pseudo-anonymized—are small. Sorry to disappoint.

If up&#x2F;down vote data were included in the API, much needed experimentation on collaborative filtering would be made possible! This is Hacker News after all.Right now one team, Ycombinator, is trying to fix important issues in the ranking and moderation of posts and comments. Many of us are frustrated by the increasing domination of popularity (and hatred) over quality and relevance. A lot of good submissions and comments are simply buried, never to be found. There is too much muck to have to wade through. The timing of posts and comments plays a much larger role than quality. I could go on and on.Imagine a Netflix Prize-like flowering of experiments and collaboration, leveraging the hacker community&#x27;s collective smarts and enthusiasm. Many of us have ideas, but right now are unable to test them. What a shame if a great idea dies on a notepad.There are two possible issues with opening up voting data: gaming and privacy. If having vote data allows someone to game the front page, then only include it with some delay (2 days?) so that it could&#x27;t be used to game the front page. This will still allow experimentation with collaborative filtering algorithms and the like.My take on the privacy issue is that anonymity isn’t that important for a site like Hacker News:1. Startup culture is about straight talk, putting your money where your mouth is, and open critical feedback, both in the giving and receiving. There are precedents for exposing voting data (e.g. Quora, Facebook, Stack Exchange).2. HN is not aimed at political discussions or other topics where anonymity can be paramount.3. Pseudonymity is sufficient for those who don’t want their votes and comments tied back to their actual identity.Thoughts?I would love to hear from others who yearn to experiment with alternate algorithms and strategies for improving Hacker News.

Does anyone have a good solution on how to get around making a separate request for each Item? Is there somewhere we can pass an array of Item Ids? Is this planned for the future?Thanks HN!EDIT: I just read the post about using the Firebase SDK to do this efficiently.

I think part of the angst centers around the bit where the markup is going to change.  Lots of apps for HN that scrape the UI rely upon the current site to enable things like voting and other signed-in-only actions, for which there is (currently) no first-class API way to do these things.  Even if the endpoints for voting change, getting other information (i.e. which items you voted on, so the vote arrows hide) is still markup-dependent.

To everyone asking about logged-in access and write access: this is just a first release! Where it goes from here will depend, in good iterative fashion, on what people want.

Oh and if you guys build anything cool with the API, please let us know at api@ycombinator.com.

Yes, but someone willing to get the HN posts about a certain topic from the API will need to keep polling the API to get all the new submissions, and filter out the content irrelevant to her purpose. Search directly from the API would be so much more convenient.

The API will allow others to come up with competing designs for HN search.

I hope they&#x27;ll add an article search (by keyword) feature soon.

yeah, I just have the same problem here... and then I have basically the same question as someone mentioned below... new stories through the api? do we have to get the max-id and then get everything below the max-id and check if its a story? and other ideas?

I built a scraper around 3 years ago (been through a few usernames since then), and I&#x27;ve had to change it once 3 months ago because the HTML output added quotes around HTML attributes.Even though it&#x27;s read only, I&#x27;ll continue to use my scraper rather than the API simple because it&#x27;s one request, rather than the API would require one request for the top IDs and then one call per story, so it would be 31 calls instead of just 1.Unless I&#x27;m missing something, it seems fairly poorly designed for top stories, and non existent for new stories.------EDIT: Looks like I missed the text about updating to a new rendering system in 3 weeks time, and to iterate designs faster to allow mobile friendly theming. Looks Like I WILL be updating to use the API

There&#x27;s way too many reddit things already out there... I was trying to tap a market that doesn&#x27;t have lots of enthusiastic software developers.oh.... wait...

Wow I&#x27;ve never heard of this but that is a really cool app, I&#x27;ll definitely check it out. Do you know of anything similar for reddit?

Nice! I&#x27;ll be changing my Mac system tray app HackerBar over to use this instead of some Objective-C scraping magic that it uses now: <a href="http://hackerbarapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerbarapp.com&#x2F;</a>

This makes it really easy to add average karma to the comment section for every user. For instance, you can paste the below into the console, and should add average karma data for each user.<pre><code> Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll(&#x27;a[href^=user]&#x27;),
 	function(v,k) { 
 		var s = document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);
 		s.src = &#x27;&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;user&#x2F;&#x27; + v.innerHTML + &#x27;.json?callback=ud_&#x27; + k; 
 		document.head.appendChild(s);
 		window[&#x27;ud_&#x27; + k] = function(user_data){
 			var avg_karma = user_data.karma &#x2F; user_data.submitted.length;
 			v.innerHTML += &#x27; (&#x27; + avg_karma.toFixed(1) + &#x27;)&#x27;;
 		}
 	} 
 );</code></pre>

I meant the list of newest stories as on this page <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newest</a>Any idea?

Just pushed the ability to subscribe to all changes and new items: <a href="https://github.com/HackerNews/API/blob/master/README.md#live-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HackerNews&#x2F;API&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;README.md#live...</a>

I have the same problem, and I think the best solution would be to index my web browser search history and be able to search through that index. However that would probably generate a lot of junk. My current solution is to bookmark anything that&#x27;s vaguely interesting. And when I remember something, I search through the bookmarks. I never look at them, they&#x27;re just for keeping the stack of stuff to search through.

It&#x27;s interesting that you mention the phenomenom of &quot;I remember seeing it (or maybe even saying it) but I cannot find it&quot;. This has happened to me a lot. It is intensely frustrating to me because it&#x27;s blocking - I don&#x27;t get much done until I re-find whatever it was.I wonder how many other people have this? And what their techniques are?

I am excited about this because now I can finally build a way to query my own posts and comments. I often times come across products&#x2F;services&#x2F;cool hacks on here that I vaguely remember, but cannot always locate. Using built-in search is kludgy, and I&#x27;d like to be able to do something more complex. Thanks for doing this!

I regard that as part of the site&#x27;s DNA. It permeates so many things about its design, both internal and external.

Glad to see that HN will still be written in a lisp after these major upgrades.

(I&#x27;ll take a crack at explaining this momentarily...)Good grief, that took a long time. Here you go: <a href="http://pastebin.com/bSW5dfRQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;bSW5dfRQ</a> [1]. I&#x27;d better stop neglecting my duties now!Edit: One thing I forgot to put in there: one reason the closure technique is powerful is that you&#x27;re leveraging the programming language and runtime to do most of the book-keeping for you. Whatever data is handy, you just reference. The system will remember all the references. That&#x27;s why using things like query strings and hidden form fields is more complicated: you have to handle all those details yourself (not to mention serialize and deserialize them if you&#x27;re passing through any other format than what your program keeps in memory). That is tedious, and when your app has many kinds of request, the complexity quickly piles up.Of course there are other abstractions you can build over this, but closures are an elegant one—especially in cases where programming simplicity is more important than scalability, which is most cases.Edit 2: A few people thought this should be its own post, so I made <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8425011</a>.[1] Originally <a href="http://pastebin.com/dETyYtpX" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;dETyYtpX</a>, but I added the above bit etc.

What is it about Arc that causes the unexpired link issue? I know very little about Arc.  But I understand it to be a language whereas the issue you describe appears to be the function of some implementation decision.  Can you please elaborate?

I guess you don&#x27;t use HN very often. We fixed that in nearly all cases a few months ago :)

Disappointing they are still going to use Arc even with the update to modern HTML. I despise how with Arc if I leave the page open during the day and try to click a link later the link has expired.They should really update to a modern web framework at the same time. Big modern frameworks like Rails are making ridiculously awesome improvements like replacing page loads with XHR (quicker loading since JS&#x2F;styles&#x2F;etc is all loaded already, no screen flash, etc.) in a progressive enhancements manner.So Arc can&#x27;t even generate fully functional links, let alone keep up with modern web advancements.

This is so awesome – albeit a bit overdue ;)I&#x27;m going to start diving into the API to build a simple, powerful &quot;Google Alerts for HN&quot; app on Assembly, and I&#x27;d love help from anyone who&#x27;s interested: <a href="https://assembly.com/hn-monitor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assembly.com&#x2F;hn-monitor</a>There are some products like this out there, but they had to rely on scrapers and the HNSearch API, so I&#x27;ve always found them to be spotty. I think we can make something better.

I have been working on a toy project that uses the Algolia API. Maybe I&#x27;ll switch it to this now.

This is excellent news, and allows me to make an app for YCombinator using our social app platform!This should really energize the HN community.

Can&#x27;t wait to see all the apps that will be built with this, now that you don&#x27;t have to scrape the horrible HN HTML!

&quot;Let there be apps&quot;.Anyone with a Firefox phone that wants to work together on a HN client for it? FFOS has been lacking a good HN app.

Why could you not have released it 1 day sooner? :) I just wrote a scraper: <a href="https://github.com/calebmadrigal/hn-tracker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;calebmadrigal&#x2F;hn-tracker</a>

This story via the API: <a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8422599.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;item&#x2F;8422599.json?prin...</a>

Nvm, I see: <a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;topstories.json?print=...</a>

How can I find the current rank of a story via the API?

Any plan on having another field on the items route that can be queried besides id, e.g. url?

At last! A hacker-friendly Hacker News! Yay!

Here is something I built with the Algolia API awhile back and just haven&#x27;t gotten around to cleaning it up to post here.It lets you download all comments&#x2F;stories for a user as a JSON or CSV file, breaks down karma between comments and stories, and plots comment&#x2F;story counts, karma, etc. over time on a line chart (clicking will show you the details via an hnsearch).Also I built some npm modules so you can get this information via the commandline.<a href="http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnuser.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a>.Example: <a href="http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/user/tptacek/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnuser.herokuapp.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;tptacek&#x2F;</a>The Chrome extension hasn&#x27;t been updated for awhile (it just superimposes a small amount of this information on the user page).

That&#x27;s good to know - wasn&#x27;t super clear on my first pass of the documentation.

If you use the Firebase iOS library they handle it all and use an efficient bidirectional streaming protocol.

Yeah, the only problem is that I don&#x27;t want to cut major functionality just to use their API. Things I do, that it doesn&#x27;t look like the API handles:<pre><code> - More than 100 stories
 - Best, Top, Ask, ShowHN, Jobs, User Submission Posts
 - User Management (logging in&#x2F;out)
 - Commenting
 - Submitting
 - Voting
</code></pre>
My app doesn&#x27;t just function as a reader, which is what this API seems geared towards with the v0 release, it functions as about as full-fledged of an HN client as you could get. There&#x27;s a couple things that I haven&#x27;t built in yet like changing your about me text, but those were on the roadmap.I&#x27;m actually thinking about storing the configuration of how my app scrapes online such that if the HTML markup changes, I won&#x27;t have to push huge sweeping changes to the App Store to get my app online again. I just deploy to Heroku and the app will handle that configuration and scrape correctly sans pushing to Apple.

When everyone === lucky to have a supported platform.

Check the article btw&quot;Most importantly, the reason we released an API is so that we can start modernizing the markup on Hacker News. Because there are a lot of apps and projects out there that rely on scraping the site to access the data inside it, we decided it would be best to release a proper API and give everyone time to convert their code before we launch any new HTML.&quot;

I&#x27;ve been waiting forever for an API from HN, but unfortunately I will not be using it for my app (<a href="https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bennyguitar&#x2F;News-YC---iPhone</a>).I&#x27;ve built a library for iOS (<a href="https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bennyguitar&#x2F;libHN</a>) that handles scraping, commenting, submitting, voting, etc pretty well and allows me to make as few web calls as necessary to use HN. It looks like I&#x27;d have to drop functionality and completely change the networking scheme to match this API - something I&#x27;m not willing to do yet.Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong here, but to get every comment on a post, I&#x27;d have to recursively get each item for each child. Instead, right now, I can make one network request and get all comments for a story. Granted, I have to parse the HTML (which I hate), but it&#x27;s a much cleaner solution than going through every item, checking the children and then getting those items ad infinitum. Again, I just glanced over the documentation, but that seems untenable to me.

that is really cool seeing the numbers change (occasionally)

The API was just announced today. Maybe give him until tomorrow to reinvent Hacker News. ;-)

Very cool, but why not update the design a bit, while you&#x27;re at it?

Sadly no, but I&#x27;m looking into how to make that happen! It&#x27;s a result of my particular implementation, not a fault of the API.

Very cool. Would be neat if changes were more pronounced when they happen. Will the posts change order in this demo if they change on the homepage?

dstaley nice work. Would be nicer still if firebase had SPDY and QUIC lit up. I don&#x27;t think it would be a problem with Apache already in front of Varnish.But more importantly, why no favicon? ;)

Definitely digging the live-update on the scores. Haven&#x27;t seen top stories switch places yet, but I&#x27;m guessing that happens also.Good work.

Very cool! Congrats on the quick work!(As I find myself pondering the idea of standing something up like this on an dual-stacked server purely so that I could access HN from my IPv6-only test network... hmmm...)

Decided to recreate the Hacker News homepage using Ember and the new API. I was really pleased with how easy it was! <a href="https://realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com&#x2F;</a>

Would it be possible to cache the number of comments a story has? Or am I wrong in my understanding that the only way to find the number of comments a story has is to walk the tree of child items and maintain my own count?

Smart move using Firebase. This instantly gives developers traction with the API and as a big API client guy, I love making clients but also very happy we&#x27;ll have all the tools we need to get started using the API right off the bat. Considering Firebase doesn&#x27;t have rate-limiting too, this means that the things people can build with this API are limitless.

I would love a personal API too where I can download my own data (i.e: saved articles).

Thanks. I&#x27;m trying to get cURL to decode, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to natively handle. Now I&#x27;m digging into ...&#x2F;escape.cI feel like I must be missing something... :&#x2F;

It&#x27;s part of HTML.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Character_encodings_in_HTML</a>

Does this encoding: &amp;#x27;have a name ? I can&#x27;t actually find anything useful on the &#x27;net.

Until now I&#x27;ve been using the RSS feed to write a Maildir archive of stories.It will be nice to write that directly via the API :)

I&#x27;m just wondering if you&#x27;d consider releasing a regular data dump, possibly via bittorrent.As I&#x27;d like to do some analysis, but don&#x27;t really want to thrash the API, downloading all data.

is there a simple way to stream all the updates or at least the new submissions&#x2F;deletes by just subscribing to a Websocket?

Thanks for the feedback!Prior to version 1.0.0 response.json() was a property, and was not callable. That&#x27;s probably what caused your error.I&#x27;ll add a minimum version to requirements.txt for the folks that install this package manually.

Can&#x27;t get it to work, e.g., for `hn.top_stories()` I get:<pre><code> Traceback (most recent call last):
 File &quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
 File &quot;hackernews.py&quot;, line 23, in top_stories
 return r.json()
 TypeError: &#x27;list&#x27; object is not callable
</code></pre>
Tried in both python 2.7.3 and python 3.2.3EDIT: You need a relatively new version of requests for this to work. The version packaged with Debian Wheezy is too old. Use pip.

I wrote a stupid simple wrapper and pushed it to PyPI. My excuse is that I needed to learn how to use setuptools today.<pre><code> pip install hackernews-python
</code></pre>
Usage:<pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; from hackernews import HackerNews
 &gt;&gt;&gt; hn = HackerNews()
 &gt;&gt;&gt; hn.top_stories()
 [8422599, 8422087, 8422928, 8422581, 8423825...
 
 &gt;&gt;&gt; hn.user(&#x27;pg&#x27;)
 {&#x27;delay&#x27;: 2, &#x27;id&#x27;: &#x27;pg&#x27;, &#x27;submitted&#x27;: [7494555, 7494520, 749411...

 &gt;&gt;&gt; hn.item(7494555)[&#x27;title&#x27;])
 Hacker News API

 &gt;&gt;&gt; hn.max_item()
 8424314

 &gt;&gt;&gt; hn.updates()
 {&#x27;items&#x27;: [8423690, 8424315, 8424299...], &#x27;profiles&#x27;: [&#x27;exampleuser&#x27;,...]}

</code></pre>
<a href="https://github.com/abrinsmead/hackernews-python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;abrinsmead&#x2F;hackernews-python</a>

I use your app, it&#x27;s awesome! Also agree with your request, as I said elsewhere in this thread...By the way, animations (the slide between list and comments) have been jerky since a recent update. I&#x27;m using the Android app on an HTC One M7 with the latest stock ROM (4.4.3 and Sense 6.0). A few other people have mentioned this in Play Store reviews. Is this a known issue?

I added upvoting stories and comments feature to my ios&#x2F;android app few weeks ago. And thinking about adding commenting.<a href="http://hn.premii.com/about" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.premii.com&#x2F;about</a>Now I will have to remove that. Please keep current version of the YC site on a different subdomain.

Great news! Will require a fair bit of retooling, but, ya know -- omelets, eggs, etc!I see the topstories query to replace scraping &#x2F;news: <a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&#x2F;v0&#x2F;topstories.json?print=...</a>And there must be a query to get the newest items instead of the current &#x2F;newest.Are there also new equivalents for &#x2F;active, &#x2F;best, &#x2F;classic, &#x2F;show, and &#x2F;shownew?I&#x27;ll be happy to replace dodgy XPATH parsing with a proper API. Hope we won&#x27;t lose these other views though!

&gt; the reason we released an API is so that we can start modernizing the markup on Hacker NewsThis is bigger news. No more tables!

If you guys are already using Mashape, it has been released as a community API at <a href="https://www.mashape.com/community/hacker-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mashape.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;hacker-news</a>

Do you want to have to reload the page every time you upvote someone?

I hope they redo it all in AngularJS just to hear people&#x27;s heads explode.

Please please please no javascript in the next HN iteration.

Perhaps keep the old site still running on a different URL so scrapers who can&#x27;t get their act together in 3 weeks can just change the URL they&#x27;re scraping from.

Ummm I have a question.Why is so much preparation necessary to redesign like 3 simple templates. Shouldn&#x27;t it take like ~10 hours for one person to do this? I&#x27;m talking about the front end.Why wasn&#x27;t hacker news optimized for mobile a long time ago?:|

I whipped up a quick test in Ruby<a href="https://gist.github.com/astevens/627756eafbc6ca07e3dd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;astevens&#x2F;627756eafbc6ca07e3dd</a>

news:yc is the best I have found. Just wish it has collapsable comments.

Finally, an AlienBlue caliber app for HN is now possible. Soon.

On a related tangent, since you mention modernizing the markup, can we please have markdown support in comments?

Please do allow other sites to use HN logins. Then the community could develop useful sister services.For example, a site where HN members can upvote and rate different development tools, libraries, IDEs, management tools, etc. All with backlinks to HN discussions. It&#x27;s a great community and there are many ways we could share knowledge and experience.

Nice time to makes some awesome data charts like most common subjects, etc...

I spent about 20 minutes throwing this together, so it&#x27;s VERY rough, but maybe it will turn into something useful. I&#x27;m primarily a java programmer but I&#x27;ve been wanting to teach myself more ruby, so here it goes.<a href="https://github.com/stevenspasbo/Hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stevenspasbo&#x2F;Hackernews</a>EDIT: I should say, I started on this to create word clouds, but if anyone has any ideas, contribute!

It would be fun to whoop up an LDA analysis of this data.

Nicely done! Binding every HN story as an object would have been the simplest approach, that makes sense.Is the source available somewhere?

Here&#x27;s another React version which also does comments (and allows you to fold them - I needed to write a userscript for that before!). It&#x27;s using react-router to switch between top stories, comments, individual comment and user profile pages.<a href="http://insin.github.io/react-hn" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;insin.github.io&#x2F;react-hn</a>I&#x27;ve just gone for it with Firebase&#x27;s React mixin, binding everything as an object, since their devs in this thread don&#x27;t seem concerned about rate limiting. The mixin seems to throw an error every time I try to unbind, which I&#x27;m just catching and logging for now.Edit: I just watched this comment pop up live in my version - pretty neat :)

The Firebase JavaScript library makes make this impressively straightforward to use. I built a clone using React.js and Firebase&#x27;s library. Because v0 of the API requires a request for each news story, it&#x27;s not possible to use Firebase&#x27;s React mixin yet.<a href="https://github.com/ssorallen/hackernews-react" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ssorallen&#x2F;hackernews-react</a>