Ask HN: Can you access old HN posts?

7 points by harlequinetcie 62 days ago | 6 comments

I've been trying to access some old posts, and I just see a 'Sorry.' message.

Is that happening to all?

tarasyarema 62 days ago |

This is the newest post I can see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233969 (I did a good old binary search :D)

tarasyarema 62 days ago | |

The API still works fine tho, i.e. via https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/<n>.json

joast 61 days ago | | |

I wouldn't say it works fine. There are problems starting with item id of 47398575. There are many items where the API returns "null" (that is the complete body in the reponse). However, the items are there if you view them without the API (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398575).

harlequinetcie 62 days ago | |

Got it, so basically anything before 2 weeks ago is gone. Txs!

gus_massa 60 days ago |

Have you tried with https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?

coinfused 62 days ago |

I got the same issue, it returns a HTTP 429 Too Many Requests