I built a scraper around 3 years ago (been through a few usernames since then), and I've had to change it once 3 months ago because the HTML output added quotes around HTML attributes.
Even though it's read only, I'll continue to use my scraper rather than the API simple because it's one request, rather than the API would require one request for the top IDs and then one call per story, so it would be 31 calls instead of just 1.
Unless I'm missing something, it seems fairly poorly designed for top stories, and non existent for new stories.
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EDIT: Looks like I missed the text about updating to a new rendering system in 3 weeks time, and to iterate designs faster to allow mobile friendly theming. Looks Like I WILL be updating to use the API
yeah, I just have the same problem here... and then I have basically the same question as someone mentioned below... new stories through the api? do we have to get the max-id and then get everything below the max-id and check if its a story? and other ideas?
Even though it's read only, I'll continue to use my scraper rather than the API simple because it's one request, rather than the API would require one request for the top IDs and then one call per story, so it would be 31 calls instead of just 1.
Unless I'm missing something, it seems fairly poorly designed for top stories, and non existent for new stories.
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EDIT: Looks like I missed the text about updating to a new rendering system in 3 weeks time, and to iterate designs faster to allow mobile friendly theming. Looks Like I WILL be updating to use the API