Switch to the official Hacker News API before October 28th
christiangenco opened this issue · comments
The Official Hacker News API was just announced, along with an announcement of new markup to be launched in three weeks:
Most importantly, the reason we released an API is so that we can start modernizing the markup on Hacker News. Because there are a lot of apps and projects out there that rely on scraping the site to access the data inside it, we decided it would be best to release a proper API and give everyone time to convert their code before we launch any new HTML.
This change will most certainly break the unofficial Hacker News API, so it's paramount (in keeping a constant stream of HN to my iPhone) that hackerweb is updated to use the new API.
Bump.
Currently I've updated the unofficial HN API to use the official API. It works for now but not ideal. The ideal solution is to use the official API directly but I realise this requires a lot more work than expected. My plan now is in fact, to take this opportunity to rewrite the whole thing and upgrade to the new API at the same time, which will probably take few weeks/months 😁
Hah! Well hey, whatever gets the job done. Glad to know my HN addiction won't be cut off 😉