Python API for Hacker News

That library is in many ways deprecated and broken: At first, it uses only old-style classes because it doesn&#x27;t inherits object explicitly. Furthermore, it uses print in a method; it would be more &quot;Pythonic&quot; to return a str object, which was formatted using str.format.<p>I think the future is Python 3, and new implementations in Python 2 syntax are simply unneccessary. I would suggest the usage of Python-3-style syntax, which is also valid in Python 2.7 (which isn&#x27;t hard).

I tried building a REST API once for a challenge if anyone is interested: <a href="https://github.com/mapleoin/newhackers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mapleoin&#x2F;newhackers</a>

Nice effort. Just a few remarks:<p>- You should certainly use Requests <a href="http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python-requests.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a><p>- The Story class seems somewhat redundant. You could possibly use collections.namedtuple as a container for properties or simply a dictionary. The print_story method could just be the __str__ special method.<p>- JSON output would be useful.

Does it use <a href="https://www.hnsearch.com/api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hnsearch.com&#x2F;api</a> ?

I think screen scrapping is not allowed by HN. Few tries with these APIs might get your IP banned!

I don&#x27;t get why you&#x27;re using a try except block for the num_comments variable. You shouldn&#x27;t be casting to an int if it doesn&#x27;t have the attribute.

It&#x27;s silly to use BeautifulSoup to parse the page when you could use a simple RegEx:<p>&lt;td class=\&quot;title\&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=\&quot;(.<i>?)\&quot;(.</i>?)&gt;(.<i>?)&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;(.</i>?)&lt;&#x2F;td&gt;