Hnac is a crawler for the hackernews firebase API.
Create a virtualenv
virtualenv --python=python3 virtualenv
source virtualenv/bin/activate
Install the package
python setup.py install
Create the configuration file .env and set the variables for the Postgresql database as well as a secret key.
SECRET="put-a-secret-key-here"
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI="postgresql+psycopg2://username:password@localhost:5432/hnac"Edit the alembic.ini file and set the sqlalchemy.url variable to point to your database. Run the migrations.
alembic upgrade head
Create a user so that it is possible to access the API
hnac users create --username username --password user_password
Start the API server
hnac runserver
You can crawl hacker news using the crawl command. You should create a cron job that will execute this command in a time interval of your choosing
hnac crawl
You can enable additional handlers in order to save the hackernews stories on
a CouchDB database or publish them on RabbitMQ. See the example settings.py file
in the templates folder for an example on how to use them.
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