Hacker News API

How does this differ from the Algolia HN API in terms of data access? (https://hn.algolia.com/api) 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/dead stories.

2) Endpoint for user data.

Question to kogir/dang: Has the "delay" field (Delay in minutes between a comment's creation and its visibility to other users) always been there?

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by zuck9 » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #6

How does this differ from the Algolia HN API in terms of data access? ( https://hn.algolia.com/api ) 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/dead stories. 2) Endpoint for user data. Question to kogir/dang: Has the "delay" field (Del…

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

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by Goopplesoft » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

zuck9 wrote: post #5

What's the Arc rendering engine? Google didn't help

http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by jaredsohn » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

zuck9 wrote: post #7

minimaxir wrote: post #6

How does this differ from the Algolia HN API in terms of data access? ( https://hn.algolia.com/api ) 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/dead stories. 2) Endpoint for user data. Question to kogir/dang: Has the "delay" field (Del…

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

They don't scrape it.

From the hnsearch about page:

"Every 2 minutes, the last 1000 HN items (stories, comments, polls) are sent to Algolia's indexing API. Items from the last 48 hours are refreshed every hour."

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by bambax » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

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