Hn-api: a simple, ad-hoc Python API for Hacker News

http://github.com/scottjacksonx/hn-api

by scottjackson • 16 years ago

23 10 16 years ago

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jacquesm4• 16 years ago

Best run that with some delays in there or you will definitely hit the velocity checks and you'll find your IP banned.

scottjackson5• 16 years ago

I hear you -- in fact, I think I'll put something in the readme about that.

jacquesm4• 16 years ago

see this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789469

iamelgringo• 16 years ago

PG has asked a number of times that people avoid scraping HN, because it thrashes the server.

HN is also running really pretty slow today.

scottjackson5• 16 years ago

> HN is also running really pretty slow today.

Just my luck. As soon as HN took a little while to load for me, I knew that someone would mention it in this thread.

I made hn-api understanding that scraping HN is frowned upon, but also hoping that programmers wouldn't do dumb things with it. As I [said][1], I minimised the number of requests hn-api makes to HN.

In the readme, I say that hn-api is unofficial and unauthorised. I also tell people to be gentle with making requests to HN. Is there some other action I should take? Ideally I'd like to keep my work up, but if pg tells me to take it down, I will.

Great, now I feel all dirty like The Pirate Bay.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112267

Hn-api: a simple, ad-hoc Python API for Hacker News

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