Hacker News Link Rot: Dead Links & Archive Recovery
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Hacker News recommends links forever and never rechecks them. Point this at the front page, or at every story above 300 points from 2013, and it reports the dead links, the redirects that answer 200 OK while the article is gone, and the domains nobody has registered - with an archived copy of each.
You can access the Hacker News Link Rot: Dead Links & Archive Recovery programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "minPoints": 300,10 "fromYear": 2012,11 "toYear": 2014,12}13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish15run = client.actor("aiqlabs/hacker-news-link-rot").call(run_input=run_input)16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)18print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])19for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():20 print(item)21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Hacker News Link Rot: Dead Links & Archive Recovery API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: