Hacker News
Mock the Hacker News Firebase API to feed simulated stories, comments, users, and ranked lists into demos and tests.
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About
Emulate item lookups, user profiles, latest item ID, and the top/new/best/ask/show/job ranking feeds so you can develop against an HN-shaped data model without polling the live Firebase backend.
Endpoints
6 across 3 resource groups
Methods
GET 6 none deprecated
OpenAPI
3.0.1 spec version 0.0.1
Source spec
7 KB · YAML
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Endpoints
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/item/{id}.json
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Get item Stories, comments, jobs, Ask HNs and even polls are just items. They're identified by their ids, which are unique integers. Mocked via Mockzilla.
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| GET |
/user/{id}.json
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Get user contributions Users are identified by case-sensitive ids. Only users that have public activity (comments or story submissions) on the site are available through the API.
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| GET |
/maxitem.json
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Latest item Get the current largest item id. You can walk backward from here to discover all items.
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| GET |
/{type}.json
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Latest Ask, Show, and Job stories Up to 200 of the latest Ask HN, Show HN, and Job stories.
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| GET |
/{topcategory}.json
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Top stories, news and best stories Up to 500 top and new stories (also contains jobs).
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| GET |
/updates.json
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Updates Get the item and profile changes. Available as a Mockzilla mock endpoint.
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