Ask HN: Is there an HN leaderboard for story sources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7079653

by andrewhillman • 13 years ago

12 6 13 years ago

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I'm curious to know which news sites/sources hit the top 30 most frequently... sources ranked by front page presence over 30 day period or so.

mjwhansen• 13 years ago

How kind of you to post this right before a long weekend when many people might have time to hack something together ;)

andrewhillman2• 13 years ago

You're onto me ;) Hopefully it gets enough votes to get noticed. Then come Monday we will see the following headline: "I Built a HN Leaderboard for Sources over the Long Weekend."

jaredsohn2• 13 years ago

An interesting way to implement this would be to just analyze tweets by @newsyc20 and resolve the domains behind the bitly links. The advantage here is that you don't have to scrape the page (or even interact with Hacker News at all) to determine what gets ranked highly; the disadvantage is that it is the top 20 instead of top 30 and it relies on the twitter feed.

Even more interesting would be if there was a twitter statistics site that this could be fed into. (i.e. no code.)

devonbarrett• 13 years ago

This would give you the top 30 sources for the past 30 days.

Note the date is hardcoded

http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=*&f...),72)))%20desc&pretty_print=true

jaredsohn2• 13 years ago

Awesome (although I'm trusting you that the query properly gets posts that made the top 30). This Bitly link will let you see the pretty printed version without having to manually mangle the URL.

http://bit.ly/19DzODh

Top ten for the impatient: github.com, medium.com, youtube.com, techcrunch.com, nytimes.com, bbc.co.uk, wired.com, en.wikipedia.org, arstechnica.com, theguardian.com.

andrewhillman2• 13 years ago

Thanks. Karma for you :)

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