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Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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Can you say more about how you built this? How you did the scraping, etc. ?

For scraping I've used the webhose api (I am still on the free account hence when u click on the link it has a 5 second redirect). I've found it is an excellent resource and easy to use API, I highly recommend it http://webhose.io/

For the tech stack its just node.js and express on the backend and vanilla JS on the front end using webpack for bundling. I built this project really as a means to teach myself to write unit tests better and mock integration tests. In the first iterations I fed the news articles after they were scraped into Google's Natural Language Processing library to get the sentiment of the article. I scrapped this after it became too inaccurate.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#82
post #25

I would visit this daily if the content quality were better. Maybe start with scraping, then let people post themselves, and gradually move towards no scraping. I like the ticker. Saves me from needing to check elsewhere.

Yes, the ticker is great! I would love a chrome extension that could attach a ticker like this to HN.

Thanks. I've simply used the coinmarketcap API to get the currency feeds, super straight forward. It fetches from the client side. Anyone can use it here https://coinmarketcap.com/api/

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#84
post #44

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what does a middleclick do?

In most browsers, middle clicking a link will open in a new tab.

Furthermore, middle click a tab to close it. Faster and easier than hitting the small cross in the corner of the tab.

In Xorg -- the graphical environment used on a lot of Unix-like operating systems like FreeBSD and various Linux distros -- middle clicking anywhere you can type text, whether that be in a terminal, in a text editor running in a terminal, a standalone text editor, an e-mail client, an input field in a web browser, etc etc etc, will paste the text you last selected. Once you get used to that you will wonder why every OS isn't doing so by default. It's pure genius plain and simple.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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That is a good part of Hacker News, but I'd suspect if it's like any other community site maybe 10% of people bother reading comments and 1% bother to make them. There's plenty of room catering for the 90% who just want the links Drudge-style, and kicking off a community that actually has discussions is super hard work.

that's funny because I read the comments on far more posts that I actually follow the links to.

Me too. I thought most people on HN came here for the discussion -- even if that means primarily reading comments and not necessarily speaking up.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#87
post #19

I can't middleclick links. Unusable for me. Also, please don't attach /?sort=new (or remove it) to reddit threads. It overrides the user's sorting.

Also consider using np.reddit.com for reddit links (https://www.reddit.com/r/NoParticipation/wiki/intro).

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#88
post #19

I can't middleclick links. Unusable for me. Also, please don't attach /?sort=new (or remove it) to reddit threads. It overrides the user's sorting.

Not just middle click, I can’t long press on mobile in order to open a new tab either. I suspect it’s just a element with an onclick handler.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In most browsers, middle clicking a link will open in a new tab.

Furthermore, middle click a tab to close it. Faster and easier than hitting the small cross in the corner of the tab. In Xorg -- the graphical environment used on a lot of Unix-like operating systems like FreeBSD and various Linux distros -- middle clicking anywhere you can type text, whether that be in a terminal, in a text editor running in a terminal, a standalone text editor, an e-mail client, an input field in a…

'middle click a tab to close it' makes things much smoother for me!

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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Calling out linguistic prescriptivism is almost as bad a social faux pas as the linguistic prescriptivism itself.

IMO it's far more misguided. We can push for precise and efficient language, or we can shrug our shoulders and let the lowest common denominator strip out all nuance.

I was cured of that particular delusion when I realized that language has literally always been attacked since the day it was created.
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