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by krapp 1594 days ago
You can't currently get a thread from a single request, you can only request a single item, and build a thread item by item. At the very least it would be nice to get an entire thread as an array of ids the way you can with pages.

But mostly, I want to be able to query - get all ids for a thread since a timestamp, or all ids matching a domain, or filter out certain users or ids with less than 2 karma, filter out certain fields, etc. Firebase supports queries, and I wish the API did too.

I can accomplish this myself by just dumping everything into a DB, web scraping, using the Algolia API which does some of this but is rate limited, but I just wish the API did it.

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Sounds like a good suggestion. Have you considered emailing @dang with this feature request on hn@ycombinator.com?