On: You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News

[minimaxir]

The only vote data that is visible via any HN API is the scores on submissions.

Day/Hour activity maps for a given user are relatively trivial to do in a single query, but only public submission/comment data could be used to infer it.

[ryandrake → minimaxir]

Too bad! I’ve always sort of wanted to be able to query things like what were my most upvoted and downvoted comments, how often are my comments flagged, and so on.

[saagarjha → ryandrake]

I did this once by scraping the site (very slowly, to be nice). It’s not that hard since the HTML is pretty consistent.