hn job query search

hn_search.js

/* Hacker News Search Script
 *
 * Original Script by Kristopolous:
 * https://gist.github.com/kristopolous/19260ae54967c2219da8
 *
 * Usage:
 * First, copy the script into your browser's console whilst on the Hacker News
 * jobs page. Then, you can use the query function to filter the results.
 *
 * For example,
 * query(AND('python', 'remote')) // Finds remote python jobs
 * query(OR('python', javascript')) // Finds jobs using python or js.
 *
 * You can also stack logical operators. For example:
 * query(AND('remote', OR('python', 'javascript'))) // Remote python or js.
 *
 * Supported logical operators:
 * NOT, not              The logical NOT / inverse operator:
 *                         True if the sole operand is false.
 * AND, and              The logical AND / conjunction operator:
 *                         All operands must be true.
 * OR, IOR, or, ior      The logical (inclusive) OR / disjunction:
 *                         Any operand is true.
 * XOR, EXOR, xor, exor  The logial exclusive OR / disjunction:
 *                         Precisely one of the two inputs is true.
 *
 * In addition, most of these operators have a negated version. (Usually by
 * prepending N or n to the name.)
 */

// Takes arguments and produces an array of functions that accept context
function handle_arg(arg) {
  // Presumably already a contex-accepting function.
  if(arg instanceof Function) return arg;
  // Make arrays behave as a logical AND.
  if(arg instanceof Array) return and.apply(this, arg);
  // Presuming a string, build a function to check.
  var my_regex = new RegExp(arg.toString(), 'i');
  return context => context.search(my_regex) > -1;
}

// Perform a logical AND on any number of arguments.
AND = and = (...args) => c => args.map(handle_arg).every(a => a(c));
NAND = NOT = nand = not = (...args) => c => !and(...args)(c);

// Performs a logic OR
IOR = OR = ior = or = (...args) => c => args.map(handle_arg).some(a => a(c));
NIOR = INOR = NOR = nior = inor = nor = (...args) => not(or(...args));

// Performs an XOR. This implementation actually allows N arguments and is
// truthy as long as at least one is truthy and one is falsy. This is a
// non-standard extension as extending XOR is ambiguous.
EXOR = XOR = exor = xor = (...args) => and(or(...args), nand(...args));
nexor = exnor = nxor = xnor = (...args) => not(xor(...args));
NEXOR = EXNOR = NXOR = XNOR = xnor;

// This traverses up the dom stack trying to find a match of a specific class
function up_to(node, klass) {
  while(!node.classList.contains(klass)) node = node.parentNode;
  return node;
}

// Set display on a particular thread.
function display(node, what) {
  up_to(node, 'athing').style.display = what;
}

function query(...args) {
  var job_list = Array.prototype.slice.call(
    document.querySelectorAll('.c5a,.cae,.c00,.c9c,.cdd,.c73,.c88')
  );
  var the_query = or(...args);

  // Check each job for a match, and show it if it matches.
  job_list.forEach(n => display(n, 'none'));
  var shown = job_list.filter(n => the_query(n.innerHTML));
  shown.forEach(n => display(n, 'block'));
  return {shown: shown.length, total: job_list.length}
}

I love your take on this script. The ability to say "not('x')" is very helpful.

Also just wanted to say thanks for the added functionality as well! 💯

Add usage instructions in the comments please!

Hey @meiamsome , thanks for the helpful work!
Had to change the display function to make it work:

  function display(node, what) {
    up_to(node, 'athing comtr ').style.display = what;
  }

Hey all,

Just updated the script to use arrow functions, added some usage help as requested by @adomasven and fixed the issue reported by @colobas. If your browser doesn't support the arrow functions, the old version is available in the revisions page.

If this is the quality of a gist then what REPOs have you got man?

you are so cool