iHackerNews

A python library for the iHackerNews API.

• Author: Derek Payton
• Version: 1.0.0
• License: MIT

Dependencies

• Requests is used to make the HTTP request.
• A JSON library of some sort (json, simplejson, or django.utils.simplejson)

Installation

iHackerNews can be installed in any number of the usual ways:

easy_install ihackernews

pip install ihackernews

pip install -e git+git://github.com/dmpayton/python-ihackernews.git#egg=python-ihackernews

git clone git://github.com/dmpayton/python-ihackernews.git
cd python-ihackernews
python setup.py install

Usage

iHackerNews API Documentation

Basic example:

```
>>> from ihackernews import iHackerNewsAPI
>>> hn = iHackerNewsAPI()
>>> response = hn.profile('dmpayton')
>>> response
<iHackerNewsResponse: http://api.ihackernews.com/profile/dmpayton>
>>> response.response # The raw response from the requests library
<Response [200]>
>>> response.data # The parsed JSON data
{u'username': u'dmpayton', u'about': u"24 year old software developer (Python) in Southern California.<p>Me: <a href='http://dmpayton.com'>http://dmpayton.com</a>\nDay job: <a href='http://cukerinteractive.com'>http://cukerinteractive.com</a><p>derek.payton (at) Google's mail service.", u'createdAgo': u'1560 days ago', u'cachedOnUTC': u'/Date(1323325776265)/', u'version': u'1.0', u'karma': 578}
```

More examples can be found in tests.py.

Testing

python tests.py

Note: Potential instabilities in the iHackerNews API service may cause test failures. It's not entirely uncommon to receive 500's or empty data from the API, which sucks, but c'est la vie.

TODO

• Better documentation
• Automatically parse Dates to datetime.datetime objects
• Retry logic (?) -- See note under Testing