Hackernews API

About

• Api to reduce the number of get requests from frontend

You can host your own or use the provided one i.e. https://hack-middleware.herokuapp.com

• example: https://hack-middleware.herokuapp.com/api/top/10

can use different endpoints for different purposes like this!

Endpoints

• GET : /api/top/:num : get the top n stories

• GET : /api/new/:num : get the new n stories

• GET : /api/best/:num : get the best n stories

• GET : /api/particular/:id : get the particular story with id :id

  can get Id from stories fetch body i.e.

        {
            "by": "apple4ever",
            "descendants": 1,
            "id": 32277424,
            "kids": [
                32277425
            ],
            "score": 1,
            "time": 1659105162,
            "title": "Microsoft Bing – site gone from SERP overnight",
            "type": "story",
            "url": "https://io.bikegremlin.com/28530/microsoft-bing-serp-gone-overnight/"
        }

  • "kids" contains array of top level comment id's, these comments can be fetched using GET : /api/particular/:id operation, can be done in nested manner!