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Scrape Hacker News front page data into JSON.

Software Engineering#parser#data-extraction#web-scraping#hackernews#json-output#hn-frontpage
Authorharsh-pandhe
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

This Skill enables automated extraction of story metadata from the Hacker News front page, turning it into structured JSON for downstream processing or monitoring.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Front-page scraping: fetches titles, URLs, ranks, points, and comment counts for top stories.
  • Deterministic output: returns a stable JSON document suitable for tests and automation.
  • Use Case: feed a dashboard or data pipeline with the latest Hacker News headlines for analytics or alerting.

Quick Start

Run the hackernews-frontpage skill to fetch the top 30 Hacker News stories as JSON.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: hackernews-frontpage
Download link: https://github.com/harsh-pandhe/pod-transit/archive/main.zip#hackernews-frontpage

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