libHN

I've been waiting forever for an API from HN, but unfortunately I will not be using it for my app (https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone). I've built a library for iOS (https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN) that handles scraping, commenting, submitting, voting, etc pretty well and allows me to make as few web calls as necessary to use HN. It looks like I'd have to drop functionality and completely change the networking scheme to match this API - something I'm not willing to do yet. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but to get every comment on a post, I'd have to recursively get each item for each child. Instead, right now, I can make one network request and get all comments for a story. Granted, I have to parse the HTML (which I hate), but it's a much cleaner solution than going through every item, checking the children and then get

It still a work in progress, but my plan is to release it on the launch day of iOS 8, with a lot more features. Like a Today widget and a share extension which will allow you to post to HN right from Safari. Edit: I started an Hacker News Swift scraper, which is what SwiftHN use now, it's called Hacker Swifter: https://github.com/Dimillian/HackerSwifter It's highly inspired from LibHN (https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN) for the scrapping part at the moment. Feedbacks and pull requests appreciated :)

libHN - https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN News/YC iOS App - https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone The app uses the libHN library for handling all requests/responses to HackerNews and is mostly just a visual representation of the data. Right now it allows logging in, viewing your own submissions, submitting posts, and submitting comments. --------------- Known Bugs --------------- Sometimes adding a comment crashes the app. I'm not handling an exception somewhere, I just honestly haven't had time to find it. The landscape view for submitting posts/comments is terrible from a user experience stand point. I know there's some interesting stuff that can be done with NSAutoLayoutConstraints but I haven't had too much time to mess with this either. I think better keyboard frame management can be accomplished too. --------------- Add

Or use mine, zero analytics code at all, and stays out of your way when you're reading/contributing to HN: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id592893508?mt=8 Oh yeah, and it's entirely open sourced, including my libHN library for interacting with HN in your own app you make: https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN

libHN and my HackerNews client for iOS. - libHN: https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN - News/YC: https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone I love contributing to this community, but the website on mobile is not great at all. I love using Alien Blue for Reddit, so I decided to make a beautiful app to read and contribute to the community for iPhone. I started with just the reader - to view links and comments. However, just recently I made libHN as a wrapper of HackerNews API calls and then the app now uses that to be a portal to HackerNews. The app is an absolute joy to use now, if I may so myself! Right now, it's gotten about 3,000+ downloads from the App Store. I don't track anything, so no idea on daily users. I just launched the pro version with the ability to login/vote/reply/submit for $0.99 two days ago. However, you can build