Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor

https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

by JasonNils • 10 years ago

413 61 10 years ago

andreicon• 10 years ago

lynx also does the job

baldfat• 10 years ago

I was just going to say this but add w3m. If anyone hasn't tried w3m for this purpose they should give it a 30 minute trial run.

Also this has the same issue of not being able to vote or comment like many other Hacker News Apps.

azdle• 10 years ago

Wow, this is actually very useable. It's actually super nice that it automatically uses my default editor for writing into textareas. Yay, using vim to comment on HN.

EDIT: For anyone else that wants to try this, it seems you need to open it with `w3m -cookie news.ycombinator.com` to be able to stay logged-in.

arca_vorago• 10 years ago

Also, as far as I know eww is now the main emacs ecosystem web browser. Works just as well as w3m and lynx do for me.

uberneo• 10 years ago

great documentation .. plus a very good reference for using Hackernews API .. great job

daw___• 10 years ago

The autocompleter feature looks neat, it's built on top of python-prompt-toolkit [0].

[0] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit

zypeh• 10 years ago

Cool, just about to ask that.

wale2• 10 years ago

So neat, good to know.

redka• 10 years ago

Does anyone know if something like this exists for other languages as well? Ruby, nodejs?

thousande• 10 years ago

Have a look at Vorpal JS

http://vorpal.js.org/

The vorpal object emits Inquirer[1] and Chalk[2]

[1] https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js/

[2] https://github.com/chalk/chalk

zuck9• 10 years ago

I just installed this because the autocomplete looked cool in the screenshots and wanted to check it out live. I wish we could have this in fish shell.

steve371• 10 years ago

very cool. love the interaction. laughing at the quote.

Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly...

wale2• 10 years ago

Haha...right there. He's just gotta back away, no matter what's on cmd.

amelius2• 10 years ago

Of course, you could also just open the developer console of your browser.

By the way, didn't we have a "boss key" for situations like this?

chris_wot3• 10 years ago

It's... Gopher for HN?

Jaruzel2• 10 years ago

Now there's a good idea. I might add a HN gateway to my Gopher server.

chris_wot3• 10 years ago

Oh boy - if you do, then please post to HN itself!

notinventedhear• 10 years ago

Very cool, but why not use lynx?

charlesdenault• 10 years ago

Why not use cURL? This is a novelty! It's fun, it's a neat project to build something while likely learning something new.

pmlnr2• 10 years ago

Or links2.

grimmdude• 10 years ago

Or a web browser?

infodroid• 10 years ago

This is a refreshing alternative to existing tools like my long-time favourite pyhn [1] as well as the newly-announced go-hn [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5013321

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479014

lawrencegs• 10 years ago

This is amazing. Also love the syntax color scheme

cmiller1• 10 years ago

I already use w3m to read hacker news most of the time anyways.

monsieurbanana• 10 years ago

I use emacs' built-in browser (eww) when I want to procrastinate in peace.

nxzero• 10 years ago

Really wish the HN-API supported pushing data to HN. Has this ever been offically addressed and if so where?

alexellisuk• 10 years ago

I really like the user interface for this (color-coding and auto-complete are nice). I'm also trying out w3m.. which seems a bit more usable thank I found `links` previously.

brbsix• 10 years ago

I know we're supposed to be focused on the end-result, but I'm really just in awe of the code. Everything is so incredibly well documented, tested, and structured. I already see a few things I want to borrow... will definitely be coming back to this project for ideas.

sikhnerd• 10 years ago

I second this. I recently made a simple command line tool for my coworkers using several of the same libraries used here, but this is so much cleaner and better organized than what I threw together. Definitely will be reviewing this codebase for inspiration when I get a chance to refactor.

Arkanosis• 10 years ago

Came here to say this. The README.md alone is one of the most amazing piece of documentation I've ever been given to read. Kudos for this!

dev1n2• 10 years ago

This guy started committing for this project back in November of this year [1]. This was a true labor of love if I ever saw one.

[1] https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news/commits/master?pag...

executesorder66• 10 years ago

back in November of this year

Teach me your ways.

clio• 10 years ago

Why labor of love?

fak3r• 10 years ago

It's pronounced `hax0r`

OJFord• 10 years ago

It's spelled 'spelled'.

excalibur• 10 years ago

This is very cool, but even with the cli it still looks unmistakably like web content.

strgrd• 10 years ago

There should be different obfuscation modes to disguise the content for your relevant work environment.

bl4ckdu5t• 10 years ago

It's just so neat and considering I usually have too many browser tabs open and still want to have hn open without having more tabs. Loving it

jcoffland• 10 years ago

I would like to use this but until you can comment and vote it is of limited value.

pyrrhotech• 10 years ago

this is why I'm a big fan of the command line browser lynx. This is a bit of an improvement over my usual lynx https://news.ycombinator.com (aliased to lynxhn), but not sure it's worth it to add a one-off when my current tool is so flexible. I frequently use lynx to browse not only HN but also reddit, wikipedia and even do google searches.

therealdrag0• 10 years ago

Very nice theme.

canweriotnow• 10 years ago

I thought we resolved this with hackernews.el - why would you read hackernews with anything but Emacs?

IT MAKES NO SENSE>

jethro_tell3• 10 years ago

Because emacs?

nogbit• 10 years ago

Ive been using http://hckrnews.com since it's launch long ago. If I go on vacation, and come back, simply filter for top 10, or, if I have loads of time look top 50%. It's great!

FajitaNachos• 10 years ago

The author's GitHub graph is pretty epic... Not to mention his 495 day commit streak.

mjdude• 10 years ago

Amazing readme. This project is so well documented.

0x54MUR412• 10 years ago

What is Haxor?

ngzhian• 10 years ago

From https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news/blob/master/haxor_...

  haxor
  Unofficial Python wrapper for official Hacker News API

0x54MUR412• 10 years ago

Ah, thanks @ngzhian.

pussinboots• 10 years ago

test comment

julian_t• 10 years ago

Very neat, but am I missing something obvious... I can get the top 10, but how can I page through posts?

I often find that if I've been away from HN for a day or two that there's interesting stuff way down the list.

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