SEselvan·Oct 8, 2012
Checkout apify - http://apify.heroku.com/resources & scrapify - https://github.com/sathish316/scrapify
Library to scrap HTML content as JSON data.
In HN2JSON: A ruby gem for HackerNewssathish316
scrapify
Ruby2012–2012
sathish316 / scrapify
scrapify
ScrApify is a library to build APIs by scraping static sites and use data as models or JSON APIs. It powers APIfy which is used to create JSON APIs from any html or wikipedia page
2Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
144GitHub stars
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What it is
ScrApify is a library to build APIs by scraping static sites and use data as models or JSON APIs. It powers APIfy which is used to create JSON APIs from any html or wikipedia page
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HN mentions by week5 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2012-06-02 21:26:45 UTC to 2012-10-08 04:26:04 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28 | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jun 4 | 2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 11 | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 18 | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 25 | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2 | 2012-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9 | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16 | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 23 | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30 | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 6 | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 13 | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 20 | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 27 | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 3 | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 24 | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 8 | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesThanks for the feedback. Will fix it in a future version.
Service is just an extension of this library:
https://github.com/sathish316/scrapify
The intent of service is to make mobile apps without a backend/db like Parse for read only APIs
In HackerNews API: What if HN does not have API? Make API on the fly with APIfyThe webapp is not open source. But the underlying library Scrapify is open source. It internally uses Nokogiri if that's what your question.
https://github.com/sathish316/scrapify#readme
In HackerNews API: What if HN does not have API? Make API on the fly with APIfyIt's not related. APIfy is a web frontend for a small library i've written to scrap webpages
https://github.com/sathish316/scrapify.
The advantage of the app over the library is caching and automatic expiry
In HackerNews API: What if HN does not have API? Make API on the fly with APIfyRegex is not yet pushed to the webapp. Regex support is available in the gem used by APIfy https://github.com/sathish316/scrapify
In HackerNews API: What if HN does not have API? Make API on the fly with APIfy