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Re:Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and les... by sillysaurus on Saturday December 08, 2012 @04:46PM (#4892796)
What API do you want? Automated submissions of posts is not a good idea, so that leaves data scraping.

If you're looking to extract data from HN, use HNSearch. http://www.hnsearch.com/

There's no reason to scrape data from HN itself.

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Re:Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and les... by duck on Saturday December 08, 2012 @08:33PM (#4893417)
HNSearch is great and I use it for my Wayback Letter project, but it hasn't been around that long so I couldn't use it before. When I started Hacker Newsletter about 2.5 years ago there was nothing, so scraping was the only solution. One of these days I will convert the application I built to build out each issue, but there also is a risk of HNSearch going away just like the last search engine did.
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