Ask HN: Will you help create a void-filler for the defunct hnbadges.netlify.app?

Posted by metadat on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @05:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.

HN Badges was a website which displayed interesting stats and achievements for each subscribed HN account.

It's been defunct for a few months now. This makes me sad.

Here is an example of what it looked like for the patio11 account:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230729084624/https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=pg

Is there an existing effort to develop an alternative? It could probably be a simple python app + SQLite or Postgres DB + slow scraper backend. If there isn't one, maybe I'll start something.

It would be great if the thing is open-source so it can't be killed randomly like what's happened with hnbadges.netlify.

https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=metadat

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Re:Ask HN: Will you help create a void-filler for the defunc... by larose on Thursday July 18, 2024 @01:20PM (#40997807)

Regarding the HN to sqlite part, I'm writing a "syncer" that continuously updates data from HN to a local sqlite database. Its goal is to enable anyone to have a local copy of the HN dataset to build various projects (like yours) on top of it. I'm about to release it as an open-source project and would love to collaborate to make sure it supports your use case. I couldn't find an email address in your profile, so please reach out if you're interested.

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Re:Ask HN: Will you help create a void-filler for the defunc... by Leftium on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:43AM (#41004720)

Might be worth reaching out to the creator of HN badges: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=quickthrower2

It seems they were very active on HN, until about 4 months ago.

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