Hnweekly: weekly top stories from Hacker News

http://hnweekly.watdahel.com/

by xtimesninety • 18 years ago

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hnweekly.watdahel.com

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

I've been looking for something like this but didn't find one. btw I only started scraping like 2 days ago :) so it's not yet a week's worth of data.

fyi: there's also http://news.ycombinator.com/lists which shows the top stories in 2 weeks

TweedHeads2• 18 years ago

Lists are almost cool.

Allow us to choose: Today, Yesterday, Week, Month, Year

smanek• 18 years ago

Pretty useful.

It would be nice to be able to see the top stories over any arbitrary time period as well. I imagine an interface with a draggable timeline to specify the period (something similar to what google finance uses, perhaps) could be even better.

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

thanks, i'm planning to add that too. you can also try this (to see more recent links): http://hnweekly.watdahel.com/?days=1

jasoncartwright• 18 years ago

Good work. Needs an RSS feed.

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

good idea :)

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

now with rss feeds!

ggruschow• 18 years ago

It looks like it sorts by points?

Is that the best way to determine top stories, or would something like a time-at-position score be better?

(Thanks - I kept meaning to do this myself. Would you do proggit & friends too, please?)

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

yep it's sorted by points. reddit already has this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top/?t=week not sure about the other sites, I'm just usually on hn, reddit and stuff on my google reader

siong19873• 18 years ago

Cool idea. Anyway, I created a Top Stories Directory 2 days ago too. It will record down every number one stories starting from 2 days ago. But, it lost tracking some stories due to some bugs. But, I already fixed them all.

http://hn.siong1987.com

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

nice work too :)

siong19873• 18 years ago

How long do your crawl the Ycombinator once? Do you actually crawl every page on YC?

parenthesis• 18 years ago

It would be good if you provided links to the corresponding HN/comments pages as well as to the stories themselves.

TweedHeads2• 18 years ago

Allow it to sort by number of comments

abossy• 18 years ago

Agreed. It is often useful to see which stories are the most-discussed.

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

alright :) http://hnweekly.watdahel.com/?order=comments

tome• 18 years ago

Doesn't seem to handle non-ASCII very well: "Does Gdel matter?"

xtimesninety11• 18 years ago

I might have problems with unicode in PHP (I really don't know much here yet) so I opted to remove them (for now) using regex.

btw I'm using http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ to scrape/parse which is great, it let's you use jquery style selectors on html.

delano• 18 years ago

In that case, it should replace ö with o, etc.

russell• 18 years ago

ö doesn't need Unicode. It's ISO-Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). An update is ISO-8859-15. Latin-1 is an 8 bit character set including ASCII, covering the Western European languages. I don't know PHP, but it could be the default or a simple character set option.

scorxn• 18 years ago

http://us2.php.net/htmlentities

rokhayakebe• 18 years ago

Nice and very useful.

epi0Bauqu• 18 years ago

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