Code Challenge for NexTech
Up to 500 top stories are at /v0/newstories
[ 9129911, 9129199, 9127761, 9128141, 9128264, 9127792, 9129248, 9127092, 9128367, ..., 9038733 ]Stories, comments, jobs, Ask HNs and even polls are just items. They're identified by their ids, which are unique integers, and live under /v0/item/.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| id | The item's unique id. |
| deleted | true if the item is deleted. |
| type | The type of item. One of "job", "story", "comment", "poll", or "pollopt". |
| by | The username of the item's author. |
| time | Creation date of the item, in Unix Time. |
| text | The comment, story or poll text. HTML. |
| dead | true if the item is dead. |
| parent | The comment's parent: either another comment or the relevant story. |
| poll | The pollopt's associated poll. |
| kids | The ids of the item's comments, in ranked display order. |
| url | The URL of the story. |
| score | The story's score, or the votes for a pollopt. |
| title | The title of the story, poll or job. HTML. |
| parts | A list of related pollopts, in display order. |
| descendants | In the case of stories or polls, the total comment count. |
For example, a story: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=pretty
{
"by" : "dhouston",
"descendants" : 71,
"id" : 8863,
"kids" : [ 8952, 9224, 8917, 8884, 8887, 8943, 8869, 8958, 9005, 9671, 8940, 9067, 8908, 9055, 8865, 8881, 8872, 8873, 8955, 10403, 8903, 8928, 9125, 8998, 8901, 8902, 8907, 8894, 8878, 8870, 8980, 8934, 8876 ],
"score" : 111,
"time" : 1175714200,
"title" : "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive",
"type" : "story",
"url" : "http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html"
}