A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News.(github.com)
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A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News.
https://github.com/nicksergeant/hackernews
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Mine only does saved stories. Though it's in Perl, not Python. It was whipped up in response to a complaint several months ago. It just never had a Show HN.
Http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
Http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
Shame you didn't do a Show HN because it looks interesting/promising so thanks for pointing me to it.
In return I can give you a clickable link :) http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
In return I can give you a clickable link :) http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/
Item #N I'm learning on HN today: .netrc! I read that I need a "machine remote_hostname token pair". What should I use for remote_hostname in this case? Thanks!
Self-answer, for anyone interested. It's in the source code [1]:
die "Error: No matches for news.ycombinator.com in ~/.netrc."
Last week I had also written the same thing in Perl to login and handle saved stories, and then add them to a folder in Instapaper.
in response to a complaint
Someone was complaining in the comments that there was no easy way to get the full list of saved stories back out of HN. I whipped up this script to do that in response. It had been an idea I was batting around in the past, but the comment provided the motivation to create it.
edit: Looked up the thread, and turns out it was an inquiry, and not a complaint.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479416
edit: Looked up the thread, and turns out it was an inquiry, and not a complaint.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479416
Thank you very much, I've been wanting to do that for a long time.
The next piece of this I'll be building out is a method for retrieving replies to your comments (I want an email when that happens).
Retrieve all saved items [...]
See also: https://github.com/scottjacksonx/hnsh
Saw that but it hasn't been updated in over a year. Also didn't look like there was a quick way to export saved stories as XML.
If anyone has any ideas as to how best to handle cookie caching, I'm all ears.
You might want to take a look into using something like twill (instead of requests) and BeautifulSoup instead of pyquery -- twill in particular will allow more control over cookies, etc.,
Thought about that, but using Requests + PyQuery was what made this project a joy to work with in the first place :)
I'm planning on just writing cookie data to a file and using that if available.
I'm planning on just writing cookie data to a file and using that if available.
I prefer lxml to BeautifulSoup.
I can’t find the link now, but I remember something about BeautifulSoup being deprecated—it didn’t support HTML5 last time I checked. LXML is great. http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ is also a nice parser for HTML5 documents.
Edit: pyquery wraps the aforementioned LXML. Seems like a good fit for jquery style selection…
Edit: pyquery wraps the aforementioned LXML. Seems like a good fit for jquery style selection…
I tried PyQuery ~1 year ago, and immediately found issues with it (IIRC it was having trouble selecting an element that had two classes, when the selector was only specifying one of those classes). I may have to revisit that if people are recommending it with positive reviews.
Give it a shot again. I've used it with several projects over the last 6 months and have had no issues. One of the projects also involved some fairly heinous malformed HTML, and PyQuery performed well.
This is an enormous undertaking.
I know there are a bunch of HN CLIs out there, but none handle saved stories (the only thing this supports, right now).