Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate • Hacker News Board

marcneuwirth wrote: post #4

Creator here, I would love to hear any feedback you all have. I also have around 3 months worth of historical data if anyone is interested or has a cool idea.

I tried doing something like this a while ago. But HN kept blocking my IP after a few days of screen scraping. How did you get past that rate limit?

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

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Post by marcneuwirth » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 4:44 PM UTC

jabo wrote: post #6

marcneuwirth wrote: post #4

Creator here, I would love to hear any feedback you all have. I also have around 3 months worth of historical data if anyone is interested or has a cool idea.

I tried doing something like this a while ago. But HN kept blocking my IP after a few days of screen scraping. How did you get past that rate limit?

I am using the bigrss feed as described in the latest post: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

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Post by kateroth » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #3

kateroth wrote: post #2

Cool idea - would be nice to be able to look for a specific item vs. rankings.

You can. This item, for example: http://hnrankings.info/4058277/

oh i meant to search for them somehow - it was apparent in the UI.

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Post by ajp » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

How about being able to pick multiple items to view on the same graph.

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Post by mike-cardwell » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 4:49 PM UTC

The movies.io one is quite interesting: http://hnrankings.info/4054568/

I'm assuming it dropped suddenly because of flagging, but how did it get back up? Manual intervention?