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What... wait what.... There is an official API and no one told ... what?

Ok, I'm seriously scraping, and I seriously dislike it, sound like HackerSwifter will now use the API! Thanks!

Edit: But there is no endpoint to have the top items, ask hn etc... right?

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Work is underway on an API to do all of this. Nick and Scott are hacking on it about three feet to my right just now. The days of scraping are numbered.

This is awesome. So it'll be a new API or an extension of the Algolia API?

The former.

Great news!

Last Show HN: http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,show_...

Last Ask HN: http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,ask_h...

Front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

You should be able to build something :)

Octopart initially provided the official API[1] and then Algolia took over early this year[2].

[1] https://www.hnsearch.com/api [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130590

A lot of people seem to have used the API to build cool apps.

https://hn.algolia.io/cool_apps

I would read the docs first and jump to conclusions later.

YCombinator doesn't endorse Algolia's HN API in any public way, to my knowledge. This makes it just regular third-party API—reliable, convenient, better than scraping, but hardly ‘official’. (Yes, I'm being pedantic.)

It seems to in the sense that Algolia powers the HN Search at the bottom of every window, and they are co-branded on those search pages. Also, https://hn.algolia.com/api

True that, I take back my comment.

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