HN-Saved-Links-Export
Productivity
bookmark export
SHOW HN2016
82points
16comments
#463of 2,264 in 2016
Top 21%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.47.
Performance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Idea is cool and useful for exporting saved links to other tools like Pinboard
From 2 comments
This idea is cool! But, error when grabbing links. ``` $ python export_links.py Enter your HN account details: Username: 0xcmp Password: Logging in... Logged in successfully.…
0xCMP on HNAlas, I couldn't get this working. Never used Python before so I'm unsure how to fix it, but it seems like something breaks when the title is undefined. Was excited to as well,…
firloop on HN
Objections
Script fails with errors when fetching pages
From 3 comments
Alas, I couldn't get this working. Never used Python before so I'm unsure how to fix it, but it seems like something breaks when the title is undefined. Was excited to as well,…
firloop on HNThis idea is cool! But, error when grabbing links. ``` $ python export_links.py Enter your HN account details: Username: 0xcmp Password: Logging in... Logged in successfully.…
0xCMP on HNNo dice (same error as commenter above).
firloop on HN
Requires entering HN credentials into a local script
From 3 comments
Note: script requires you to enter in your HN authentication details. (Unavoidable, since the HN API neither supports authentication nor an endpoint for saved stories)
minimaxir on HNIt's ten times better than entering your credentials on another website, but the code could still do some fun stuff with it. I kinda doubt it, but just saying.
lucb1e on HNThe codebase can easily get big enough to miss it transmitting your credentials if you don't spend hours looking at it. Even in a 100 line script you can overlook a well hidden…
lucb1e on HN
Scraping HN risks an IP ban
From 2 comments
It needs a sleep(30) in the page request or it will get your ip banned.
sitkack on HNScraping HN is hard. I got an IP ban even when using sleep with a random duration.
curiousgal on HN
Requests
Add an official HN API endpoint for saved links
From 2 comments
Putting in the request now for HN to update their API to provide this: https://github.com/HackerNews/API I figure since a comment of mine sparked 'saved comments' being a thing…
busterarm on HN> We hope to improve the API over time, and may later enable access to private per-user data using OAuth. It's been like that for a long time I think.
antouank on HN
Questions
How to fix the cssselect or title-undefined error
From 2 comments
No dice (same error as commenter above).
firloop on HNcan you do pip install cssselect and try?
raggingfox on HN
Alternatives named
Pinboard
From 1 comment
Alas, I couldn't get this working. Never used Python before so I'm unsure how to fix it, but it seems like something breaks when the title is undefined. Was excited to as well,…
firloop on HN