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Capture Hacker News threads as markdown

Content & Communication#markdown#comments#firebase#ingest#hackernews#algolia#thread-extraction
AuthorRonanCodes
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

Extracts Hacker News posts and their full comment trees into a portable markdown representation so discussion threads can be ingested into a wiki or knowledge vault for search, citation, and long-term analysis.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Parse HN item URLs or bare numeric IDs and fetch the complete thread using the Algolia HN API (no auth required).
  • Convert post bodies and nested comments from HTML to clean markdown, preserve author, timestamps, points, and HN URLs, and represent nesting with blockquote-based indentation capped for readability.
  • Save a YAML frontmatter and the assembled markdown to the vault raw directory, with handling for very large threads (selective truncation of less-substantial subtrees) and a Firebase API fallback when Algolia fails.
  • Use Case: Pull a long Ask HN discussion into your Obsidian vault for offline reading, summarization, and cross-referencing with related wiki pages.

Quick Start

Ask the system to "Ingest Hacker News thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123456 into the vault raw directory as a markdown file."

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

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Name: ingest-hackernews
Download link: https://github.com/RonanCodes/llm-wiki/archive/main.zip#ingest-hackernews

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