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by jcla1 4565 days ago
Not a full featured api, but a way to scrape all of HN: http://jcla1.com/blog/2013/05/13/crawling-hackernews/

Disclaimer: It's my own blog

edit: Uses HNSearch, so it doesn't violate the robots.txt and can be crawled faster
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zerd 4565 days ago
Did you manage to download the whole database that way? Edit: Also, why didn't you use the "start" (offset) parameter?
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jcla1 4563 days ago
No, not tried to download it yet. Regarding your question, if you try to use a start > 999 you get this error: "Validation error: max limit is 100, max start+limit is 1000", which is why I avoided that parameter.
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