Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website

Re:Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile ... by news-yc on Thursday September 15, 2011 @08:17PM (#3002620)

I don't use the iHackerNews API for news:yc. It seemed too unreliable to use a third party service that seemed to keep having issues, and I didn't want user data to go through a third party. But I think it's cool to easily create a HN app without rewriting the scraping.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile ... by genieyclo on Thursday September 15, 2011 @08:29PM (#3002640)

Cool, do you scrape with your own tool then? If so, what do you use?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile ... by news-yc on Thursday September 15, 2011 @10:58PM (#3003013)

I scrape inside the app using a combination of libxml2, a custom XML wrapper for iOS, and then a horribly ugly (but pretty adaptable) chunk of objective-c to parse out the contents. This helps mostly for rate limiting issues: each device is rate limited as it should be.

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