amrrs/HN_scraper_in_R
Hacker News Front Page Scrapper in R
This project helps you quickly gather the latest headlines and associated details from the Hacker News front page. It takes the live Hacker News front page as input and outputs a structured table of posts, including titles, URLs, and other key information. Anyone interested in tracking popular tech news and discussions without manually copying data can use this.
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Use this if you need to regularly capture the top stories from Hacker News for analysis or archiving.
Not ideal if you need to scrape data from other news sources or require historical data beyond the current front page.
Get this data via API
curl "https://pt-edge.onrender.com/api/v1/quality/perception/amrrs/HN_scraper_in_R"
Open to everyone — 100 requests/day, no key needed. Get a free key for 1,000/day.
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