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Re:HNWatcher: track keywords and follow users on Hacker News by Sujan on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:23PM (#6097525)
What are you using as the backend/API?
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Re:HNWatcher: track keywords and follow users on Hacker News by julien421 on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:30PM (#6097586)
It is partially based on HN Search API [1] and partially based on homemade Ruby scripts.

[1] HNSearch: https://www.hnsearch.com/api

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Re:HNWatcher: track keywords and follow users on Hacker News by Sujan on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:31PM (#6097603)
Nice, I'm asking because there was a similar service [1] that stopped working without explanation before and that kinda sucked after getting used to it.

[1] http://hackerfollow.com/

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Re:HNWatcher: track keywords and follow users on Hacker News by julien421 on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:34PM (#6097640)
Never heard of it. I will try to get in touch with them to see what happenned.
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