tedmiston / product-hunt-commented

View all of your comments on Product Hunt

Product Hunt Commented

A small bit of code to print every comment you've made on Product Hunt.

Because it doesn't exist in the web app yet.

Setup

1. Create a virtual environment and install dependencies. I like virtualenvwrapper because it does both in one command.

   git clone https://github.com/tedmiston/product-hunt-commented
   cd product-hunt-commented
   mkvirtualenv -a . -r requirements.txt product-hunt-commented
   

Quick start

1. Create a developer token in the Product Hunt API Dashboard.

2. Store it in an environment variable. I use virtualenvwrapper's postactivate script.

   export PRODUCT_HUNT_DEV_TOKEN=xxxyourkeyherexxx
   

3. Run it.

   $ python ph.py
   

   Sample output:

   Comments for Taylor Edmiston #6311 (@kicksopenminds)
   
   1.) on "Puzzly":
   > "Such puzzling. Much selfie.
   
   (Real question: What made you want to build Puzzly?)"
   
   2.) on "Newsly":
   > "I think you nailed the above-the-fold on the signup page: a nice short demo video and a registration that let's me jump straight to dibbing a name right away.  I use a few products like this myself already (Pinboard for articles, Disco for music, _______ for books/other media)."
   
   ....
   

The results will be printed to stdout, and stored locally in a shelve database called my_comments.db, which works as a cache. Subsequent networking calls use ETags to ensure content will only be downloaded if it has changed.