Show HN: Google Trends for Hacker News Comments

Category: other

Tags: api, hacker-news, firebase, real-time, data-access

Score: 4.0/10 (Innovation: 2, Technical: 3, Documentation: 8, Utility: 3)

The Hacker News API provides near real-time access to public Hacker News data via Firebase, including items, users, and comments. It is notable for its simplicity and lack of rate limits, but the API is essentially a direct dump of internal data structures, making it awkward to use for complex queries.

Target audience: developers building applications or analyses on top of Hacker News data

Repository: https://hntrends.hughparry.com/ · MIT · 13364 stars

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