[jabo]

I tried doing something like this a while ago. But HN kept blocking my IP after a few days of screen scraping. How did you get past that rate limit?

[marcneuwirth]

I am using the bigrss feed as described in the latest post: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

[cooldeal]

I wish it gave out the points the article had... does your data track that or just the position?

[marcneuwirth]

Just the position unfortunately, I would need to scrape the site itself in order to get comments and points info. It would be awesome if that data was added to the RSS feed

[peteretep]

Were you hitting it more than once every 30 seconds?

[jabo]

No, I hit it once in 15 minutes!