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Hacker News has an API to their data, providing an interface to query data from their site in JSON (see here). Hacker News provides it through firebaseio, so maybe it’s worth pushing this to another service but the basic form would be something in the form of https://stacker.news/items/1130.json?print=pretty with the resulting item JSON closely mirroring the database schema.

Other tables in the database schema could be accessed similarly.

I do see an api directory so maybe this is already implemented? If so, it would be good to document. If not, then having an API so that other hackers can look at the data would be cool.

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  • State:open
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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huumncommented, Aug 18, 2021

There’s a graphql API that’s effectively public but I have not documented it. Good rec!

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huumncommented, Jun 2, 2022

would paying sats to post be a deterrent b/c it would be too expensive to spam?

At 1 sat per post, no. At 1000 sats per post, probably.

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