Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#1

Post by ptm » Wed, May 26, 2010, 6:40 PM UTC

Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.
ftfysearch.com

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#2

Post by ptm » Wed, May 26, 2010, 6:48 PM UTC

Just a FYI - reddit allows me 1 request/2 seconds - so a lot of queries may only return Bing data (no score/comments etc)

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#3

Post by sli » Wed, May 26, 2010, 6:55 PM UTC

You, sir, have done a great public service.

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#4

Post by barlo » Wed, May 26, 2010, 7:15 PM UTC

sli wrote: post #3

You, sir, have done a great public service.

I couldn't agree more. Well done. Any plans on releasing the source? I've been looking to play with AppEngine for a project just like this.

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#5

Post by jedberg » Wed, May 26, 2010, 7:26 PM UTC

Thank you for doing this. Much like http://www.searchreddit.com/, this is cool but missing a lot of data and features.

You may want to check out these links, also:

http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php

http://www.reddit.com/help/search

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#6

Post by ptm » Wed, May 26, 2010, 7:40 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #5

Thank you for doing this. Much like http://www.searchreddit.com/ , this is cool but missing a lot of data and features. You may want to check out these links, also: http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php http://www.reddit.com/help/search

Thanks for the feedback :).

I just noticed that I'm seeing a 30-40% failure while using the API - is there any reason that should be so ? I'm batching around 20-30 ids together (as recommended).

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#7

Post by ptm » Wed, May 26, 2010, 7:41 PM UTC

barlo wrote: post #4

sli wrote: post #3

You, sir, have done a great public service.

I couldn't agree more. Well done. Any plans on releasing the source? I've been looking to play with AppEngine for a project just like this.

Thanks.

About releasing, I'll clean the code up and share it when I have time.

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#8

Post by stuntmouse » Wed, May 26, 2010, 7:55 PM UTC

seems to work great, thanks.

any chance of changing the link color? too much red.

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#9

Post by jedberg » Wed, May 26, 2010, 8:15 PM UTC

ptm wrote: post #6

jedberg wrote: post #5

Thank you for doing this. Much like http://www.searchreddit.com/ , this is cool but missing a lot of data and features. You may want to check out these links, also: http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php http://www.reddit.com/help/search

Thanks for the feedback :). I just noticed that I'm seeing a 30-40% failure while using the API - is there any reason that should be so ? I'm batching around 20-30 ids together (as recommended).

Email me your IP (jedberg@reddit.com) and we'll see if we can figure it out.

Re: Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.

#10

Post by dc2k08 » Wed, May 26, 2010, 8:15 PM UTC

just a heads up, I'm getting a BadQueryError if my search term contains an apostrophe.