go-hacknews

Tiny utility Go client for HackerNews API.

Official Hackernews API

Install

 go get github.com/PaulRosset/go-hacknews

Usage

Few examples are available inside the examples/ folder.

package main

import (
	    "fmt"
	    "github.com/PaulRosset/go-hacknews"
)

func main() {

	// Init struct with the kind of story you want
	// (topstories/newstories/beststories/askstories/showstories/jobstories)
	// and the number of posts that you want to fetch.
	init := hacknews.Initializer{"topstories", 10}

	// Get the code of posts.
	// Return a slice of int with the entry id if everything is ok or return an error.
	codes, err := init.GetCodesStory()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}

	// Get the posts thanks their id fetched above.
	// Return a slice of Post type with a readable format in go or return an err if fail.
	posts, err := init.GetPostStory(codes)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}

	// Iterate over the slice to get what we want.
	// Here, get Title and Url of post. But we can access all fields from the official hackernews api
	// Note : Field are empty, if no data belong to them
	for _, post := range posts {
		fmt.Printf("Title : %v // Url : %v\n", post.Title ,post.Url)
	}

}

Test

Tests are available :

$ go test

License

MIT