import logging logging.basicConfig( format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', level=logging.INFO) 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): try: r = requests.get(route(ref), timeout=5) if r.status_code != 200: raise return r.json() except BaseException as e: logging.error('Problem hitting hackernews API: {}'.format(str(e))) return False def feed(): return api(API_TOPSTORIES)[:30] or [] 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['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 not r: return False 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['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(feed()) print(story(20763961))