Hacker News API page is broken

Posted by DungFu on Sunday May 07, 2017 @08:45PM
from the self-post dept.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

It never loads and just shows: "There was an error completing your request"

I have been checking the Hacker News API daily for a while now to see if this will start working, but it appears to be permanently be broken. Is there anything that Hacker News can do to get this to work (update in Firebase UI or setting fix)?

I want to be able to use the new Firebase API to access the Hacker News data, but I can't download the proper google-services.json to get it working when the Firebase API page is broken.

The API is awesome to have and hope that it can be fixed soon! :)

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Re:Hacker News API page is broken by iamshekhargh on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:17AM (#14289836)

I don't think it has auth, You can still use the API, you can hit https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json to get the ids of all top stories and then hit em individually to get information about it.

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Re:Hacker News API page is broken by gus_massa on Sunday May 07, 2017 @09:01PM (#14288578)

You can try sending an email to [email protected] to get a reply sooner. Sometime this threads are unnoticed.

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Re:Hacker News API page is broken by sctb on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:53PM (#14294977)

Apologies for the confusion—that page isn't intended to do anything useful. We've removed the link from the API documentation page, but if we've missed something please let us know via email.

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Re:Hacker News API page is broken by DungFu on Monday May 08, 2017 @04:34PM (#14295343)

The link used to do something useful, but there seems to be something that changed when the new Firebase launched.

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Re:Hacker News API page is broken by natejackdev on Sunday May 07, 2017 @09:10PM (#14288604)

If you find the answer let me know, because i have been wondering for weeks now.

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