Hacker News API
This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN.<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksoftware.hackernews" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...</a><p>The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I'm fine with switching to a new API (Square's Retrofit will make it super easy to switch), but without submitting, commenting, and upvote support I have to disable a bunch of features I worked really hard on. Also it would've been cool to know this was coming about 3 months ago so I didn't waste my time.<p>Anyways, quick question on how it works -- when I query for the list of top stories<p><a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=...</a><p>it just returns a list of ids. Do I have to make a separate request for each story<p><a href="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=pretty" rel="nofollow">https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=p...</a>)<p>to assemble them into a list for the front page, or am I missing something?