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HackerNews API Edit

Description: Hacker News frontpage API
HTML URL: http://news.ycombinator.com/news
Index API: /api/hacker_news.json

Test API JSON output here
Show API: /api/hacker_news/ .json

Test API JSON output here

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APIfy converts data in existing HTML sites and wikipedia pages to JSON APIs.

APIs can be consumed from Ruby , Python , PHP, Node.js, iPhone, Android apps.

Javascript and Phonegap apps can use JSONP to consume API without a backend.

APIfy is built using ScrApify gem.

Click Edit or Test to view existing APIs

Name your API
Ex: IMDBMovie
Enter URL to extract data
Ex: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
Use :foo: in URL for dynamic parameters.
webpage to Click and select attributes
Enter APIfy path for JSON API
Ex: imdb_top250_movies
Click to add attributes. Enter CSS selector or XPATH selector for each attribute
Enter Unique Attribute to get each record
Ex: rank is the unique attribute in /api/imdb_top_250_movies/:rank.json

HTML URL is the html page from which data is extracted
Use :foo: in URL for dynamic parameters.
API Path is the APIfy URL for the API
webpage to Click and select attributes
Add/Edit attributes if you think something is broken.
Attributes are selected using CSS selector or XPATH selector
Unique Attribute is used to identify records
Ex: rank is the unique attribute in /api/imdb_top_250_movies/:rank.json
Locked APIs cannot be edited

This API can be used from:

Click Test API to directly test API from APIfy.

Use Index API to get all records
Ex: /api/imdb_top250_movies.json
Use Show API to get one record using unique attribute
Ex: /api/imdb_top250_movies/4.json
JSON output will appear like this:
{rank: 4, title: "Pulp Fiction", rating: 9.2}
API can also be tested using curl or RESTClient

Selector	Example	Description
.class	.foo	Elements with class=foo
#id	#foo	Element with id=foo
element	div	Select all <div> elements
parent child	table.books td	Select all <td> inside table having class=books
parent > child	tr.book-row td	Select all <td> directly below <tr> having class=book-row
element with attribute	dt[data-type='book-title']	Select all <dt> having data-type='book-title' attribute
parent element:nth-child(n)	tr.book-row td:nth-child(3)	Select every 3rd <td> inside <tr> having class=book-row. Ex: ISBN could be the 3rd column in books table
parent element:first-child	tr.book-row td:first-child	Select every first <td> inside <tr> having class=book-row.
parent element:last-child	tr.book-row td:last-child	Select every last <td> inside <tr> having class=book-row.

Selector	Example	Description
element	div	Select all <div> elements
/element	/div	Select all <div> elements starting from the root node
//element	//div	Select all <div> elements anywhere in the DOM
attributes	//img@alt	Select all alt attributes of <img>
element with attribute	//dt[data-type='book-title']	Select all <dt> having data-type='book-title' attribute
//parent/element[n]	//tr[class=book-row]/td[3]	Select every 3rd <td> inside <tr> having class=book-row. Ex: ISBN could be the 3rd column in books table
//parent/element[1]	//tr[class=book-row]/td[1]	Select every first <td> inside <tr> having class=book-row.
//parent/element[last()]	//tr[class=book-row]/td[last()]	Select every last <td> inside <tr> having class=book-row.