Show HN: Visual Search using HNSearch API

http://hnsearch.heroku.com/

by mopatches • 15 years ago

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hnsearch.heroku.com

mopatches2• 15 years ago

FYI: The search only matches titles and usernames on submissions right now. Matches in other fields or in threads are ignored since the result page doesn't show them.

mopatches2• 15 years ago

For anyone interested, this Ruby code will get you started hacking in the HNSearch API right away. Gets JSON response for @query and puts it into an array of submission hashes (@results):

require 'net/http'

require 'uri'

require 'json'

@query = “facebook”

url = "http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=#{C...

doc = Net::HTTP.get URI.parse(url)

jdoc = JSON.parse(doc)

jdoc["results"].each do |result_hash|

  @results << result_hash["item"]

end

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