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This is a wrapper module around the Hacker News API. You can filter the news in order to show you only the stories with a minimum score.
This is a wrapper module around the Hacker News API. You can filter the news in order to show you only the stories with a minimum score.
Tha last version of this library support async/await.
As simple as npm install yc-api
Import the module with const yc-api = require('yc-api')
.
This take the top stories (IDs) from YC and return them.
Takes an url as argument and return a JSON object containing the story.
The returned object looks like this:
{
"by" : "dhouston",
"descendants" : 71,
"id" : 8863,
"kids" : [ 8952, 9224, 8917, 8884, 8887, 8943, 8869, 8958, 9005, 9671, 8940, 9067, 8908, 9055, 8865, 8881, 8872, 8873, 8955, 10403, 8903, 8928, 9125, 8998, 8901, 8902, 8907, 8894, 8878, 8870, 8980, 8934, 8876 ],
"score" : 111,
"time" : 1175714200,
"title" : "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive",
"type" : "story",
"url" : "http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html"
}
Return an array of JSON object containing the stories.
Same as get_stories but return into the object only the stories with the minimum score of score.
Example
stories_with_score(200).then(stories => console.log(stories));
const YC = require("yc-api");
const api = new YC();
api.stories_with_score(500).then(stories => console.log(stories));
// using async
const stories = await api.stories_with_score(200);
console.log(stories)```
FAQs
This is a wrapper module around the Hacker News API. You can filter the news in order to show you only the stories with a minimum score.
We found that yc-api demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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