yc-api

What is it?

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.

Installation

As simple as npm install yc-api

Usages

Import the module with var yc-api = require('yc-api').

In the new es6 fashon import yc-pi from yc-api.

###get_top_stories_id(cb)

This take the top stories (IDs) from YC and return them into the callback.

###get_story(url,cb) Takes an url as argument and return into the callback 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"
  }

###get_stories(cb) Return into a callback an array of JSON object containing the stories.

###stories_with_score(score,cb) Same as get_stories but return into the object only the stories with the minimum score of score.

Example

stories_with_score(200,function (stories){
	console.log(stories);
});

Example

var yc-api = require('yc-api');
var async = require('async');

var yc = new yc-api.API;

yc.stories_with_score(500, function (stories)  {
    async.each(stories,function (story, cb)  {
        console.log(story.title);
        cb();
    }, function (err, res) {
        if (err) throw err;
        console.log('done');
    });
});