getHNFavorites.js

It's a shame favorites aren't exposed in the official HN API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API - this is a smart workaround.

This is smart. I'm adding this to my HN favorites.

It's four years old so the page HTML structure must have likely changed. I'll take a look at it when I'm free and update the script. Thanks for your PR, I'll review and merge the…

Thanks for the tip. I gave the "Scraper" extension a try, and 1) I got an error, 2) it only seems to scrape 1 page -- it doesn't paginate (or, did I miss something?). I used the…

Could someone convert it to Python-script?

Thanks dvfjsdhgfv. If there's sufficient interest, I can easily turn it into a Chrome extension. (Edit: haha, I see what you just did there. A little recursive humor.)

Our plan is for the next version of HN's API to simply serve a JSON version of every page. I'm hoping to get to that this year.

That's great! Is there any plan of exposing authenticated content through the API too? Mainly talking about upvoted stories.

That would be amazing! I've been having some fun with the API recently building this tool: https://github.com/dogsheep/hacker-news-to-sqlite

My tool here can export all of a user's comments: https://github.com/dogsheep/hacker-news-to-sqlite Not upvoted yet as they aren't in the API I am using.

I made an API for favorites a while back. https://github.com/reactual/hacker-news-favorites-api Here's an example query: https://reactual.api.stdlib.com/hnfavs/?id=sbr464&limit=1

This is cool, I love HN metadata, too :) Plug for a related golang tool I wrote and use which exports favorites upvotes as structured JSON: https://github.com/jaytaylor/hn-utils…