Ask HN/PG: Is there an API for hackernews?

7 pointsby chunky1994vor 12 Jahren6 comments

If so, where can I find it? If not, how did everyone who got data about HN (such as in posts about the best time to post etc.) get their data? Did you just crawl HN?

5 comments

shamsulbuddyvor 12 Jahren

try http://hnapp.com/ .. get the json response

mschuster91vor 12 Jahren

Yeah, HTML scraping with PHP's DOM functions... I'm cleaning it up atm and will release it on github wehen done.

HN is, from a technological POV, stuck in the Middle Ages when compared to the startups that YCombinator backs.

minimaxirvor 12 Jahren

The Algolia API is far superior than any scraping API (incidentally, it's also a YC startup)

neilcovor 12 Jahren

There's an API from the search engine provider, Algolia:

https://hn.algolia.com/api

minimaxirvor 12 Jahren

The 2010 era blog posts on best time to post used scraping, but the Algolia API just released is robust enough for HN data analysis. (proof: http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/ )

https://hn.algolia.com/api

jaredsohnvor 12 Jahren

To download all stories:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-download-all-storie...

To download all comments:

https://github.com/jaredsohn/hacker-news-download-all-commen...

To download saved stories (not available via API; haven't personally tried it though):

https://github.com/dougk7/hackernews-stories