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avinassh
haxor
Python2014–2026
avinassh / haxor

haxor

Unofficial Python wrapper for official Hacker News API

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Unofficial Python wrapper for official Hacker News API

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-10-10 16:58:45 UTC to 2026-01-31 22:17:53 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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rovr138·Jan 31, 2026
Here's an example, https://shottr.cc/s/165K/SCR-20260131-oys.png Claude Code v2.1.29 Opus 4.5 · Claude Team ~/stow/tmp I have a new project In it, I want to scrape hacker news data. The project will be built in python. I want to search first what are the latest projects in python that could help me extract the data. This could be via api or scraping it. Once you have a plan, ask me 10 questions to help navigate the structure. I'll help you research the latest Python options for extracting Hacker News data. Let me search for current tools and approaches. Web Search("Python Hacker News API scraping library 2026") ⎿ Did 1 search in 20s Web Search("Hacker News official API Python wrapper 2025 2026") ⎿ Did 1 search in 17s Web Search
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("best Python library scrape Hacker News data extraction") ⎿ Did 1 search in 20s Let me get more details on the official Hacker News API and some specific library documentation. Fetch(https://github.com/HackerNews/API) ⎿ Received 373.8KB (200 OK) Fetch(https://pypi.org/project/hackernews-python/) ⎿ Received 3KB (200 OK) Fetch(https://github.com/avinassh/haxor) ⎿ Received 378.1KB (200 OK) I've gathered comprehensive research on the available options. Let me write up my findings and then ask you the 10 questions. Updated plan ⎿ /plan to preview Research Summary I found several solid options for extracting Hacker News data in Python: Best Options Found: 1. Official HN API (Firebase-based) - Free, no rate limits, real-time data - Source: https://github.com/HackerNews/API 2. haxor - Most popular Python wrapper for the official API - Source: https://github.com/avinassh/haxor - Install: pip install haxor 3. DIY Scraping - BeautifulSoup + Requests/httpx for data not in the API - Source: https://www.proxiesapi.com/blog/scraping-the-hacker-news-with-python-and-beautiful… 4. Commercial - https://apify.com/epctex/hackernews-scraper for hosted solutions --- Now, here are my 10 questions to help define your project structure: ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ← Data Source Data Types Storage Use Case Submit → Do you want to use the official HN API (recommended, no rate limits) or scrape the website directly? 1. Official API (Recommended) Use Firebase-based API - reliable, real-time, no rate limits 2. Web Scraping Scrape HTML directly - more flexible but requires maintenance 3. Both API as primary, scraping for data not available via API 4. Type something. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 5. Chat about this 6. Skip interview and plan immediately Enter to select · Tab/Arrow keys to navigate · Esc to cancel
In Claude Code is your customer
redigestit·Sep 18, 2015
Hi, I created redigest.it because I was unhappy with reading Hacker News and reddit. The goal is to get the best content in less time. The three major pain points redigest.it improves for me are: 1. I want to see links once, then hide them. 2. I want to have better control over which links and how many of them I get to see. Especially when I haven’t visited the sites for more than a day facing a large backlog. 3. I often want to see the best links since my last visit instead of “hot” links. (reddit’s “top” fails because it underrepresents small subreddits as they tend to have low scores.) Visiting the sites too often shows me few new links under many that I’ve already seen. Visiting the sites too rarely makes it easy to miss good links/discussions and overwhelming due to the amount of content. More detailed descriptions of the benefits: -
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Hacker News: http://www.redigest.it/hn/why - reddit: http://www.redigest.it/r/why There are three digests so far: - Hacker News: http://www.redigest.it/hn/ - reddit’s /r/all: http://www.redigest.it/r/ - Your personal reddit frontpage: http://www.redigest.it/r/my/ The personal reddit digest is the one with the most improvements so far. The site is using: - Flask - RethinkDB - haxor for the Hacker News API: https://github.com/avinassh/haxor - Praw for the reddit API: https://praw.readthedocs.org/ Next, I’m going to take the number of comments into account for the HN digest. Looking forward to your feedback!
In Show HN: redigest.it – Digest for Hacker News and reddit
avinassh·Jul 20, 2015
> Compute pair-wise Jaccard similarity of all articles with each other and output the articles whose title similarity is greater than 0.5. If I understand correctly, it checks the similarity between titles. How effective it will be if it also checks similarities between the article contents? Sometimes, the article may not have similar looking titles, but talking about same thing. Example: [0], [1], [2] OT: You can use Python haxor to get articles from the HN [3]. Disclaimer: I wrote it. [0] - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-17/google-app... [1] - http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/17/googles-one-day-rally-is-the-... [2] - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33572959 [3] - http://github.com/avinassh/haxor
In De-duplicating Hacker News
avinassh·Oct 10, 2014Submission

Show HN: haxor, Python Wrapper for Hacker News API

I built a Python wrapper for newly launched official Hacker News API. Here's github link: https://github.com/avinassh/haxor pypi link - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/haxor/ To install just use pip: pip install haxor Example usage: To find all the 'jobs' post from Top Stories: for story_id in hn.top_stories(): story = hn.get_item(story_id) if story.item_type == 'job': print story # <hackernews.Item: 8437631 - Lever (YC S12) hiring JavaScript experts ...> # <hackernews.Item: 8437036 - Product Designer (employee #1) to ...> # <hackernews.Item: 8436584 - Django and iOS Hackers Needed – fix ...> # ... # ... Appreciate any suggestions/feedback :)
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