hackernews-python 0.3.2

Python wrapper for the official Hacker News API (v0)

Installation

pip install hackernews-python

Usage

>>> from hackernews import HackerNews
>>> hn = HackerNews()
>>> hn.top_stories()
[8422599, 8422087, 8422928, 8422581, 8423825...

>>> hn.item(1).title
'Y Combinator'

>>> hn.item(1).time
datetime.datetime(2006, 10, 9, 11, 21, 51)

>>> hn.user('pg').created
datetime.datetime(2006, 10, 9, 11, 21, 32)

>>> hn.user('pg').karma
155040

>>> hn.max_item()
8424314

>>> hn.updates()
{'items': [8423690, 8424315, 8424299...], 'profiles': ['exampleuser',...]}

API Documentation

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Release History

0.3.1 (2014-10-12)

• Fix README examples

0.3.0 (2014-10-12)

• Returns Item and User objects instead of dicts.

0.2.0 (2014-10-10)

• Convert timestamps to native datetime objects (breaking change)
• Added tests.py (100% line coverage)
• Add link to official API docs to README.rst

0.1.1 (2014-10-09)

• Improve syntax highlighting in README.rst

0.1.0 (2014-10-07)

• 1st release