getHN

getHN

#!/usr/bin/python2.7

import requests

def getItems(from_date, to_date):
    api_root = 'http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search'
    url = api_root + '?filter[fields][create_ts]=[{}+TO+{}]'.format(from_date, to_date)
    payload = {
        'limit': 100,
        'sortby': 'create_ts desc',
        'filter[fields][title]': 'Show\ HN\*',
        'filter[fields][type]': 'submission',
    }

    r = requests.get(url, params=payload)
    print r.url
    print r.json()['hits']
    for i in r.json()['results']:
        print i['item']['title']

getItems('2013-06-10T00:00:00Z', '2013-06-20T00:00:00Z')