hnuserdownload

Downloads Hacker News comments/submissions for a user. Can be used as a module or from the commandline.

How to use

Install

$ npm install hnuserdownload

Include the module and run

var hnuserdownload = require('hnuserdownload');
    
hnuser(id, function(err, results) {
  if (err) console.log(err);
  console.log(csv);
});

Features

• Pages through results to get all comments and stories created by a user.
• Optionally stores data as JSON and CSV

Limitations

• Algolia (the source of the data) sets a limit of 1000 requests per hour. If making heavy use of the API, make sure that you look at the num_requests output to limit usage so that you do not get banned.

Use as a module

Example

var hnuserdownload = require('hnuserdownload');
hnuserdownload.hnuserdownload("pg", function(err, results)
{
	console.log(results);
});

There is also a method available to assist creating a CSV file.

Command Line Interface

hnuserdownload can also be called from the command line

Usage: hnuserdownload username [json] [csv]

The username is required. Include json and/or csv to create output files. The files will be named automatically based on the username.

Other ways to use it

[http://github.com/jaredsohhn/hnuserstats] makes use of this library and includes statistics. That library will have a web frontend at [http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/] and Chrome extension frontend at [http://github.com/jaredsohn/hnkarmabreakdown].

About

Written by [Jared Sohn](mailto: jared.sohn@gmail.com).