Show HN: A HN Api to provide random HN posts to read upon

by bluerail • 11 years ago

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minimaxir• 11 years ago

  hn_url := "http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/"
  page := rand.Intn(50)
  points := randomInt(200, 600)
  url := hn_url + "search?tags=story&numericFilters=points>" + strconv.Itoa(points) + "&page=" + strconv.Itoa(page)

That's an odd definition of random.

bluerail2• 11 years ago

The points is just a threshold to get a good article instead of just anything. And, Algolia returns maximum of 1000 hits for a query with 20 per page. So shuffling the page to pick up too.

Killswitch• 11 years ago

Not bad, but instead of displaying title and just url, maybe put HN url too, because I refreshed the endpoint a few times and got a couple self posts that had blank urls, but titles looked interesting...

Maybe at least if it's a self post, show the HN url.

bluerail2• 11 years ago

Yeah, sounds good. I'll add it today. I also am building another Ruby script which works on top of this to save the articles to pocket.

Show HN: A HN Api to provide random HN posts to read upon

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