A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News.

https://github.com/nicksergeant/hackernews

by nicksergeant • 15 years ago

86 23 15 years ago

I started this to specifically dump my saved stories to an XML feed, which I hook up to http://ifttt.com and auto-import into Pinboard. Working great, so far.

I know there are a bunch of HN CLIs out there, but none handle saved stories (the only thing this supports, right now).

pyre4• 15 years ago

Mine only does saved stories. Though it's in Perl, not Python. It was whipped up in response to a complaint several months ago. It just never had a Show HN.

Http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/

draegtun• 15 years ago

Shame you didn't do a Show HN because it looks interesting/promising so thanks for pointing me to it.

In return I can give you a clickable link :) http://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile/

ez774• 15 years ago

  in response to a complaint

What kind of complaint?

ez774• 15 years ago

Item #N I'm learning on HN today: .netrc! I read that I need a "machine remote_hostname token pair". What should I use for remote_hostname in this case? Thanks!

dmn001• 15 years ago

Last week I had also written the same thing in Perl to login and handle saved stories, and then add them to a folder in Instapaper.

narag• 15 years ago

Thank you very much, I've been wanting to do that for a long time.

nicksergeant7• 15 years ago

If anyone has any ideas as to how best to handle cookie caching, I'm all ears.

mp3jeep01• 15 years ago

You might want to take a look into using something like twill (instead of requests) and BeautifulSoup instead of pyquery -- twill in particular will allow more control over cookies, etc.,

pyre4• 15 years ago

I prefer lxml to BeautifulSoup.

nicksergeant7• 15 years ago

Thought about that, but using Requests + PyQuery was what made this project a joy to work with in the first place :)

I'm planning on just writing cookie data to a file and using that if available.

nicksergeant7• 15 years ago

The next piece of this I'll be building out is a method for retrieving replies to your comments (I want an email when that happens).

pault• 15 years ago

You can also use http://hnnotify.com for this. Works great.

nicksergeant7• 15 years ago

Ah, very cool - thanks!

vrode• 15 years ago

This is an enormous undertaking.

ez774• 15 years ago

  Retrieve all saved items [...]

This, by itself, is a wish come true for this programmer wannabe. Thank you wholeheartedly.

RyanMcGreal• 15 years ago

nicksergeant7• 15 years ago

Saw that but it hasn't been updated in over a year. Also didn't look like there was a quick way to export saved stories as XML.

A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News.

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