JackDanger / hacker_news

An example of a stand-alone Ruby web filter

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wow, I'm not sure why I thought .app was legit
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Hacker News

This tiny script is a scraper for http://news.ycombinator.com. It shows just how little Ruby is required to run a powerful web filter.

What it be doin':

  • Fetches the YCombinator news page
  • HPricot's it into pieces
  • Builds an RSS feed
  • Uses links to parse the destination article page and include the main text inline
  • Runs as a stand-alone server thanks to Rack and Mongrel