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Hacker News API

Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)

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Thanks everyone for the support! If you have any questions, I'll be around.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@ilikevests teased this in one of the YC office hours. For years people have been scraping the site, building chrome extensions, mobile apps, etc.* It's awesome to see YC/HN encourage this. Being a HUGE community of hackers, I'm curious to see what is made. *We saw similar things happening early on in the Product Hunt community. We launched an API a few… See more
[deleted user]
@deleted_user
Thanks everyone for the support! If you have any questions, I'll be around.
Joe Kerns
@josephkerns · Co-founder, Roundview
Any ideas or uses that you'd like to suggest to the community? What have the scrapers generally been building in the past?
Simon Dawlat
@virtualgoodz · CEO, Batch.com
Definitely something @tiboel will want to take advantage of with Mention.com ;)
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@ilikevests HN has been around for several years. Why build an API now?