joshrotenberg / hn_ex

A Hacker News API Client

HN

A simple Hacker News API client in Elixir based on the official Firebase API.

Usage

Each endpoint (see API docs above) has a corresponding function call (and unsafe version), for example:

iex> HN.item(8863) # argument can be an integer or a string
{:ok, %HN.Item{
     by: "dhouston",
     dead: nil,
     deleted: nil,
     descendants: 71,
     ...
}}

# or

iex> HN.item!(8863)
 %HN.Item{
     by: "dhouston",
     dead: nil,
     deleted: nil,
     descendants: 71,
     ...
}}

Installation

Add hn_ex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:hn_ex, "~> 0.1"}
  ]
end