Archivy-HN

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Archivy-HN

automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts

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#hacker news#archive#upvoted posts#download#bookmarks

144points
21comments
#420of 3,028 in 2020
Top 14%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.

Idea: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 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

  • Wanted feature for finding useful upvoted content again

    From 1 comment
    • Upvoted comments is the one thing I've always wanted (I don't care for the rest). I often upvote things that are useful to refer back to, and without this there's no easy way to…
      dataflow on HN

Objections

  • Upvoted links are already stored on HN; people want comments archived instead

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting. But for me upvoted links are already stored on Hacker News. What I wanted to download / archive is others' comments. Some comments are so valuable that I saved in a…
      longnguyen on HN
  • No rate limiting could lock users out

    From 1 comment
    • I do not see any rate limiting, this could lock people out if they have more then a couple pages of posts.
      zxcvbn4038 on HN

Requests

  • Download all of your HN comments

    From 2 comments
  • Save upvoted or favorited comments

    From 1 comment
    • I'm thinking about doing something like that - I'll implement it because it'd also be quite useful. Do you think it would be worthwhile to be able to save upvoted / favorited…
      etherio on HN
  • Search over your comments and upvoted comments

    From 1 comment
    • Actually, the thing I would be interested in most is a better way to search my comments, my upvoted comments, etc. HN has a search box, but afaik there's no way to filter by…
      amelius on HN

Questions

  • Whether to save parent and child comment context

    From 1 comment
    • I'm thinking about doing something like that - I'll implement it because it'd also be quite useful. Do you think it would be worthwhile to be able to save upvoted / favorited…
      etherio on HN

Alternatives named

  • Python script using HN upvoted pages

    From 1 comment
    • Cool. If you want an smaller alternative, just getting upvoted ids is easy enough in python ``` import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup with requests.Session() as session:…
      ashish01 on HN
  • haxor Python library for the HN API

    From 1 comment
    • You could also use the haxor Python library that wraps the HN API: https://github.com/avinassh/haxor
      pabs3 on HN
  • jaredsohn/hnuserdownload Node library

    From 1 comment
    • I built a node library that does this 6 years ago and I just verified that it still works. It uses the algolia API. https://github.com/jaredsohn/hnuserdownload There was also a…
      jaredsohn on HN
  • HN data in Google BigQuery public datasets

    From 1 comment
    • All HN comments are available with Google's BigQuery public datasets: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combinator/hacker-news?pli=1
      reilly3000 on HN
  • hackerlates

    From 1 comment

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