Finish prototype api server

apiserver/feeds/hackernews.py

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+import requests
+
+API_TOPSTORIES = lambda x: 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json'
+API_ITEM = lambda x : 'https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/{}'.format(x)
+
+SITE_LINK = lambda x : 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={}'.format(x)
+SITE_AUTHOR_LINK = lambda x : 'https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id={}'.format(x)
+
+def api(route, ref=None):
+    r = requests.get(route(ref), timeout=5)
+    return r.json()
+
+def feed():
+    return api(API_TOPSTORIES)[:30]
+
+def comment(i):
+    c = {}
+    c['author'] = i.get('author', '')
+    c['score'] = i.get('points', 0)
+    c['date'] = i.get('created_at_i', 0)
+    c['text'] = i.get('text', '')
+    c['link'] = SITE_LINK(i['id'])
+    c['comments'] = [comment(j) for j in i['children']]
+    return c
+
+def comment_count(i):
+    alive = 1 if i['author'] else 0
+    return sum([comment_count(c) for c in i['comments']]) + alive
+
+def story(ref):
+    r = api(API_ITEM, ref)
+
+    if 'deleted' in r:
+        return False
+    elif r.get('type', '') != 'story':
+        return False
+
+    s = {}
+    s['author'] = r.get('author', '')
+    s['author_link'] = SITE_AUTHOR_LINK(r.get('author', ''))
+    s['score'] = r.get('points', 0)
+    s['date'] = r.get('created_at_i', 0)
+    s['title'] = r.get('title', '')
+    s['link'] = SITE_LINK(ref)
+    s['source'] = 'hackernews'
+    s['url'] = r.get('url', '')
+    s['comments'] = [comment(i) for i in r['children']]
+    s['num_comments'] = comment_count(s) - 1
+
+    if 'text' in r and r['text']:
+        s['text'] = r['text']
+
+    return s
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print(story(20763961))