GitHub - jackfranklin/Hacker-News-Droid-API: Unofficial Hacker News API

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Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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models		models
static		static
templates		templates
APIContent.py		APIContent.py
APIUtils.py		APIUtils.py
AppConfig.py		AppConfig.py
BeautifulSoup.py		BeautifulSoup.py
DataCache.py		DataCache.py
Formatter.py		Formatter.py
GAHelper.py		GAHelper.py
GetHNAskHandler.py		GetHNAskHandler.py
GetHNBestHandler.py		GetHNBestHandler.py
GetHNCommentsHandler.py		GetHNCommentsHandler.py
GetHNLatestHandler.py		GetHNLatestHandler.py
GetHNNestedCommentsHandler.py		GetHNNestedCommentsHandler.py
GetHNNewestHandler.py		GetHNNewestHandler.py
GetHNPageContentHandler.py		GetHNPageContentHandler.py
GetHNRSSHandler.py		GetHNRSSHandler.py
GetHNSecondPageHandler.py		GetHNSecondPageHandler.py
GetHNSubmittedHandler.py		GetHNSubmittedHandler.py
README		README
SandboxController.py		SandboxController.py
app.yaml		app.yaml
index.yaml		index.yaml
main.py		main.py
structured.py		structured.py

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Unofficial Hacker News API: http://hndroidapi.appspot.com

The API is currently in beta and was developed for the Hacker News Droid app (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.glebpopov.hackernews). The API is built in Python and hosted on AppEngine. I used the Beautiful Soup library for HTML parsing/scraping. 

There's five minute caching for main content entry points (/news, /best, /ask, /newest); there's no caching for paginated content (requests that require pageID). 

For any questions, source code, etc, please drop me a note. Cheers, Gleb