Module: HackerNews

Defined in:: lib/hnruby.rb,
lib/hnruby/comment.rb,
lib/hnruby/newsitem.rb,
lib/hnruby/storylist.rb

Overview

The HackerNews module is a set of tools for reading from Hacker News.

Simple Example

Print out information about the top news item:

require 'hnruby'

top = HackerNews::StoryList[1]

puts "Title:     #{top.title}"
puts "URL:       #{top.url}"
puts "Comments:  #{top.comment_url}"
puts "Submitted: #{top.time}"
puts "Has #{top.points} points and #{top.comments} comments."

Accessing Content

Stories

Stories are only really accessible via index, via the HackerNews::StoryList module like in the above example.

Comments

Comments are accessed via the CommentPage class, which represents all comments on a given HN story. These are also easiest to access via StoryList:

cpage = HackerNews::StoryList[1].comment_page\
#=> "Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)" <27 Comments>

However, it’s also possible to pass a URL directly to the CommentPage constructor:

page = HackerNews::CommentPage.new\
("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644955")\
#=> "Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)" <27 Comments>

From a CommentPage, specific comments can be accessed via index:

comment = cpage[1]	#=> <Comment> by user 1 day ago

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: StoryList Classes: Comment, CommentPage, NewsItem

Constant Summary collapse

HN_URL = Because clearly this is in danger of changing at any moment.

"https://news.ycombinator.com/"