Hacker News API

What about search? Would be great to have an ability to search by URL or title fragments

Suggestions for improving the API, to make it more valuable for data mining and analytics. This assumes more historical data is available.

1. Provide a way to bulk download the data (that's a click, instead of scraping the API)

2. Add a field for the maximum position a story reached on the front page

3. Add the numerical score for the comment (at least on comments that are N days old, which won't interfere with the reason to hide the scores on the main comments)

Some other changes that would be awesome (but are less realistic) include:

4. A historical event log of votes (even better would be relating those votes back to users, but I imagine that's not going to happen for privacy reasons. An intermediate possibility would be a vote log connected back to anonymized user ids, assuming the anonymous id -> real user id mapping is difficult)

5. A historical event log of display position changes for stories & comments

6. An event log of pageviews with as much metadata as possible to release without infringing on privacy

Yeah, unfortunately, I'm trying to not use any closed source stuff in the app. Going to write some service layer stuff for it