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Also, while they don't have a Windows Phone API I previously wrote a COM Windows Scripting API to use it via Chackra from an ASP.Net app. I think it's even easier now that JS is a supported app language.
Are you referring to the WebSocket API that the Firebase SDKs use internally? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere so I guess it's only slightly better than scraping HTML ;)
Here's a simple example that displays the top story and votes using the Firebase JS SDK (and updates in realtime): http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/cm8ne9nh/
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It's part of HTML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML
Thanks. I'm trying to get cURL to decode, but it doesn't seem to natively handle. Now I'm digging into .../escape.c I feel like I must be missing something... :/
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Are you referring to the WebSocket API that the Firebase SDKs use internally? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere so I guess it's only slightly better than scraping HTML ;)
I set things up so I could actually run their whole JS SDK and talk to it from C#.
With access to a Firebase SDK the only major additions the API needs to become a viable replacement for existing read-only client apps would be support for all the other lists apart from top stories (new, show, show new, ask, jobs, best, active) and more than 100 items for each. For apps that need write access I'd suggest keeping the current website on a separate subdomain until that is implemented into the API.
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?
Listening to programmers complaining about the markup used to implement HN is a perfect example of tech folks not focusing on the users.
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Thanks. I'm trying to get cURL to decode, but it doesn't seem to natively handle. Now I'm digging into .../escape.c I feel like I must be missing something... :/
You can't simply decode each character without losing information. For example, < means a literal If you're just planning on displaying the text in a browser, no decoding is needed. If you want to parse the text to do some sort of textual analysis, an HTML parser library might be best.
Thx.
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…
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?