Any way to see the highest ranking a story achieved on hacker news?

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for example, given any submission on HN, what was its top ranking on the news page?

[pg]

This isn't stored anywhere by us. HNSearch might have it.

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they don't appear to, but thanks for the suggestion. i also checked hckrnews, but no luck.

[andres → forgetcolor]

You can use the HNSearch API for that type of query:

http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?sortb...