Show HN: A HN Api to provide random HN posts to read upon

Show HN: A HN Api to provide random HN posts to read upon(github.com)

5 points by bluerail 10 years ago | 4 comments

minimaxir 10 years ago |

  hn_url := "http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/"
  page := rand.Intn(50)
  points := randomInt(200, 600)
  url := hn_url + "search?tags=story&numericFilters=points>" + strconv.Itoa(points) + "&page=" + strconv.Itoa(page)

That's an odd definition of random.

bluerail 10 years ago | |

The points is just a threshold to get a good article instead of just anything. And, Algolia returns maximum of 1000 hits for a query with 20 per page. So shuffling the page to pick up too.

Killswitch 10 years ago |

Not bad, but instead of displaying title and just url, maybe put HN url too, because I refreshed the endpoint a few times and got a couple self posts that had blank urls, but titles looked interesting...

Maybe at least if it's a self post, show the HN url.

bluerail 10 years ago | |

Yeah, sounds good. I'll add it today. I also am building another Ruby script which works on top of this to save the articles to pocket.