Hacker News API to JSON: Latest Stories, Points, Comments

Created by

Charles Markette

Actor

HTTP Request & API Calls: Bulk, Pagination, JSON to Rows

Get the latest Hacker News stories as JSON, CSV or Excel: title, link, points, comment count, author and time, one row per story. It reads the public Algolia Hacker News API (no key), fetches two pages of 50 stories and turns each story into a row. Change the query or tags to follow a topic, Show HN or Ask HN, or schedule it to get the latest stories every hour.

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HTTP Request & API Calls: Bulk, Pagination, JSON to Rowscharlesmarkette/http-request-api-calls-bulk-pagination

Label

Method

Request URL

Page

+9 fields

Input

Requests

url:https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date

params

label:hn-latest-stories

URLs:https://httpbin.org/get

Method:GET

Auth header name:Authorization

Keep the item's original fields:true

Pagination:pageParam

Page parameter:page

First page number:0

Page step:1

First offset:0

Page size:100

Max pages per request:2

Items path:hits

Split items into rows:true

Extract fields:{6 fields}

Response format:auto

Include response headers:false

Max response size:5242880

Timeout per request:30

Retries:2

Parallel requests:5

Parallel requests per host:2

Delay between requests to the same host:0

Follow redirects:true

Output fields

Label

Method

Request URL

Page

Status

OK (2xx)

JSON

Text

Time (ms)

Bytes

Truncated

Error

Requested at

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