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asyncio-hn
==========

A simple asyncio wrapper to download
`hacker-news <https://news.ycombinator.com/>`__ with speed and ease.

The package supports all endpoints of the official API : `hacker-news
API <https://github.com/HackerNews/API>`__

Installation
------------

.. code:: shell

pip install asyncio-hn

Usage
-----

.. code:: python

import asyncio
from asyncio_hn import ClientHN

async def main(loop):
# We init the client - extension of aiohttp.ClientSession
async with ClientHN(loop=loop) as hn:
# Up to 500 top and top stories (only ids)
hn_new_stories = await hn.top_stories()
# Download top 10 story data
top_posts = await hn.items(hn_new_stories[:10])
# Download the user data for each story
users = await hn.users([post.get("by") for post in top_posts])


if __name__ == '__main__':
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main(loop))

Advance usage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Using this config you can reach 1000+ request/sec.

.. code:: python
import aiohttp
from asyncio_hn import ClientHN

N = 1_000_000

async def advance_run(loop):
# We init the client - extension of aiohttp.ClientSession
conn = aiohttp.TCPConnector(limit=1000, loop=loop)
async with ClientHN(loop=loop, queue_size=1000, connector=conn, progress_bar=True, debug=True) as hn:
# Download the last 1,000,000 stories
hn_new_stories = await hn.last_n_items(n=N)

Output example:
---------------

Item:

.. code:: python

item = {'by': 'amzans', 'descendants': 25, 'id': 13566716,
'kids': [13567061, 13567631, 13567027, 13567055, 13566798, 13567473], 'score': 171, 'time': 1486210548,
'title': 'Network programming with Go (2012)', 'type': 'story',
'url': 'https://jannewmarch.gitbooks.io/network-programming-with-go-golang-/content/'},
{'by': 'r3bl', 'descendants': 1, 'id': 13567940, 'kids': [13568249], 'score': 24, 'time': 1486230224,
'title': 'YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science videos from the Internet',
'type': 'story',
'url': 'http://climatestate.com/2017/02/03/youtube-removes-hundreds-of-the-best-climate-science-videos-from-the-internet/'}

User:

.. code:: python

user = {'created': 1470758993, 'id': 'amzans', 'karma': 174,
'submitted': [13567884, 13566716, 13566699, 13558456, 13539270, 13539151, 13514498, 13418469, 13417725,
13416562, 13416097, 13416034, 13415954, 13415894, 13395310, 13394996, 13392554, 12418804,
12418361, 12413958, 12411992, 12411732, 12411546, 12262383, 12255593]}


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