Hacker News

Hacker News is a social news website focused on computer science, startups, and technology-related topics.

Categories: Social Media

Type: hackerNews/v1

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Actions

Fetch Top Stories

Name: fetchTopStories

Fetch top stories from Hacker News.

Properties

Name	Label	Type	Description	Required
numberOfStories	Number Of Stories	INTEGER	Number of stories to fetch.	true

Example JSON Structure

{
  "label" : "Fetch Top Stories",
  "name" : "fetchTopStories",
  "parameters" : {
    "numberOfStories" : 1
  },
  "type" : "hackerNews/v1/fetchTopStories"
}

Output

Type: ARRAY

Items Type: OBJECT

Properties

Name	Type	Description
by	STRING	The username of the item’s author.
descendants	INTEGER	In the case of stories or polls, the total comment count.
id	INTEGER	The item’s unique id.
kids	ARRAY Items [INTEGER]	The ids of the item’s comments, in ranked display order.
score	INTEGER	The story’s score, or the votes for a pollopt.
time	INTEGER	Creation date of the item, in Unix Time.
title	STRING	The title of the story, poll or job. HTML.
type	STRING	The type of item.
url	STRING	The URL of the story.

Output Example

[ {
  "by" : "",
  "descendants" : 1,
  "id" : 1,
  "kids" : [ 1 ],
  "score" : 1,
  "time" : 1,
  "title" : "",
  "type" : "",
  "url" : ""
} ]