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Re: Hacker News API

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Post by Livven » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:40 PM UTC

airlocksoftware wrote: post #105

dang wrote: post #80

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I'm sorry you just invested a lot of time in scraping. I know from experience what a pain that is. We said several times that the API was coming, and I've made it clear to anyone who asked, but there's just no way to reach everybody. All: in the future, please get answers to questions like this by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. Re write access and logged-in access, if that turns out to be how people want to use the API…

I'm not blaming you. It just feels bad, you know? I'll definitely email you in the future about stuff like this. And don't get me wrong, it will be great to be able to throw out the cruft that comes along with parsing the current layout. The app is engineered to be able to drop in a new API pretty quick since I thought something like this would happen eventually. It would help me out a lot if the current front end wo…

I second that request. Having a subdomain point to the current layout for a little longer is definitely going to help the transition, especially for write access and platforms without Firebase SDKs.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by hokkos » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:40 PM UTC

airlocksoftware wrote: post #35

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof... The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I…

I remember it was announced a few month ago.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by oftenwrong » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:42 PM UTC

I have been working on a toy project that uses the Algolia API. Maybe I'll switch it to this now.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by angersock » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:44 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #92

angersock wrote: post #76

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It's not a slight advantage if you've ever had to parse through logfiles by hand or debug APIs with curl--it's a great deal more than that. Why not, let's have some more examples: In PHP (with a bug, because PHP is stupid and doesn't handle decimal fractions): $dateTime = DateTime::createFromFormat( DateTime::ISO8601, '2009-04-16T12:07:23Z'); In C#: DateTime time = DateTime.Parse("2010-08-20T15:00:00Z", null, DateTim…

> It's not a slight advantage if you've ever had to parse through logfiles by hand or debug APIs with curl--it's a great deal more than that. Funny you should say that, UNIX time works great for log files. Since now even a dumb tool can search for values in the range, 1388491199-1420027199 to see all 2013-2014 lines. Your way requires specific support for the date format, dealing with "2014" false positives, or searc…

ISO-8601 is designed to be sortable lexicographically, so the same benefit stays there when using dumb tools.

Again, no benefit to not using it, other than you are scared of strings. If you are handling JSON from a web API, you are already dealing in strings.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by EGreg » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:44 PM UTC

This is excellent news, and allows me to make an app for YCombinator using our social app platform!

This should really energize the HN community.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by piyush_soni » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:44 PM UTC

airlocksoftware wrote: post #35

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof... The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I…

So why, in the first place, would I want another mobile app rather than just opening the fully functional website (which is pretty simple & basic already) on my mobile browser?

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by enobrev » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:44 PM UTC

airlocksoftware wrote: post #95

jkimmel wrote: post #73

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just wanted to let you know that I love your application!

Thanks! I think you'll like the new version whenever it gets finished :)

Big fan and daily user of your app as well. Looking forward to the new version!

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by danieldisu » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:46 PM UTC

Can't wait to see all the apps that will be built with this, now that you don't have to scrape the horrible HN HTML!

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by airlocksoftware » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:47 PM UTC

piyush_soni wrote: post #116

airlocksoftware wrote: post #35

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof... The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I…

So why, in the first place, would I want another mobile app rather than just opening the fully functional website (which is pretty simple & basic already) on my mobile browser?

Because it can be better designed, use common design / navigation patterns of your mobile OS, notify you when you get a reply, change the text size, change the theme, have richer animations, and allow you to automatically share content from other applications directly to HN?

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by dimillian » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 7:48 PM UTC

matznerd wrote: post #108

dimillian wrote: post #39

So, does it mean I can get the top stories, and then get a top story item with all the comment expanded ? I mean, at first it look like it just send me the id and I need to fetch the detail for each of them. Again, this is just looking at the REST API, not the iOS SDK for example. I'll need to "convert" SwiftHN ( https://github.com/Dimillian/SwiftHN ) either to this new API or adapt my scrapping engine to the new sit…

Please do convert it, I am working on a project with some of your code as a base!

You're using the app, or the scrapping engine (Hacker Swifter)?

The nice thing is that HackerSwifter public API is already in a quite finished state for the available functions, even if I switch to the API, the method calls will be the same.