HNSearch API Contest

Every hnsearch contestant gets a dotCloud account to run their app easily, and for free.<p>Email hn@dotcloud.com to get started.

I sadly don't have time to implement it, but I'm still suggesting the idea.<p>You enter a keyword - say Python.<p>It shows a graph where nodes are submitted articles and comments intermixed. On each "Comment" node, we see the picture of the author (obviously if found), the karma and other possible information about him/her (Blog, website, startup company, etc.).<p>Also, on each nodes start new related nodes.. So, if I search for python, I might have a link to a new node called Django which would then link to useful comments and other articles/comments.<p>So, the overall idea is to really be able to "visually browse and learn through hacker news". "Vim" would give all plugins, author's plugin, etc.

Just for curiosity's sake, how is this dataset populated? Is ThriftDB just scraping HN? Is there some kind of back-end DB feed?

Well this is as far as I got in about an hour for adding a /hn tag to Unscatter.com - <a href="http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=%2Fhn+facebook" rel="nofollow">http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=%2Fhn+facebook</a><p>Javascript paging still isn't and it needs to be prettied up, but I figure not bad for about an hours worth of work. And a good demonstration of the framework Unscatter.com is built on being suitable for rolling out new apis pretty quickly.<p>I'd wrap it up today but I got family stuff today, should be complete by 6/20. Until I finish the javascript and layout /hn won't be advertised on the sidebar, but anyone is free to start using it, I won't be turning it off.

We just changed the contest date from June 15th to June 20th to give people more time to work on apps.

OK - I have no illusions about winning the contest, but just for fun I gave it a go by adding support to my existing Android app, SocialMediaTicker. My app is designed for when your device is charging or otherwise idle and is a bit of an eye-candy display. It's a 3D, interactive ticker-tape type display that scrolls facebook feeds, twitter streams, news headlines, photos, rss feeds, etc. Click once to stop an item, click on it again to call up the full photo, story, rss feed, etc.<p>For HN, I added a headline search capability and also made it part of my experimental Twitter Trends mashup where the search terms for content automatically come from the currently trending topics under Twitter. This can be hit-and-miss for HN as oftentimes Twitter trending terms don't match well to the topics found under HN, but other times I've been surprised about what pops up.<p>If you want to give the mashup a try, I'd turn most other content off, turn the mashup on, sit back and watch what happens! Configuration of all content can be found in the preferences menu. By default HN is off.<p>To give it a try on your Android, download the app here:<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaticker.com/SocialMediaTicker.apk" rel="nofollow">http://www.socialmediaticker.com/SocialMediaTicker.apk</a><p>Feedback appreciated!

Anyone wanna team up on this? I'm thinking of a WordPress plugin that shows links to related articles or discussions based on a post's title or tags ...

Here's my simple HNSearch API JavaScript example. It lists submissions from the last 3 hours and sorts by points.<p><a href="http://www.hnjs.dotcloud.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hnjs.dotcloud.com/</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2663282" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2663282</a>

This probably won't win, but it would be great if someone could write a tiny app that converts search results sorted by date into RSS feeds. I might hack something up myself after I'm done with exams, if no one else does.

What makes the monitor "hacker-optimized"?

<i>disclaimer: this is shameless self promotion for something i coded some time ago</i><p>well, is somebody hacks up something nice via node.js why not transform the whole hnsearch api into a nice npm package using<p><a href="https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/apimaker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/apimaker</a><p>basically you put some nice URLs in -&#62; magic -&#62; a wrapped API comes out.

What are reasonable rates for querying the API?

Hello I've spent the last two days hacking together a mobile site for hacker new search API... the mobile site is fully function but still needs some UI updating I currently working on integrating into twilio to allow you to pull search results via TEXT kinda over kill but why not!<p><a href="http://hnsearch.mobi" rel="nofollow">http://hnsearch.mobi</a>

Here is one: <a href="http://HNTop100.com" rel="nofollow">http://HNTop100.com</a> -- the top Hacker News posts of all time! Sort by most up voted or most commented on. This took me way longer than it need to because I kept finding awesome articles to read! Enjoy xD

If this is successful, will you consider running a similar contest for Arc Forum? <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297</a><p><i>Edit:</i> Fixed link to have correct URL. Sorry for the mistake.

Put in a quick first entry for the contest (HNInstant.com):<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621144" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621144</a><p>More coming...

Looks like fun, gears are churning.

anyone looking for a coding buddy to do something or ideas? i have some free time atm