package main import ( "encoding/json" "errors" "fmt" "log" "net/http" "regexp" "strconv" ) type ItemID = int type Story struct { ID ItemID By string // username of author Time int // UNIX timestamp Descendants int // number of comments Kids []ItemID Score int Title string Url string } var ( HackerNewsUrl string HackerNewsFirebaseUrl string HackerNewsLinkRegexp *regexp.Regexp ) func init() { HackerNewsUrl = "https://news.ycombinator.com" HackerNewsFirebaseUrl = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0" HackerNewsLinkRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`(?:https?:\/\/)?news\.ycombinator\.com\/item\?id=([0-9]+)`) } func FetchHackerNewsTopStories() []Story { // API docs: https://github.com/HackerNews/API url := fmt.Sprintf("%s/topstories.json", HackerNewsFirebaseUrl) resp, err := http.Get(url) if err != nil { log.Fatal("Error fetching top stories:", err) } defer resp.Body.Close() log.Printf("GET %s %d\n", url, resp.StatusCode) var ids []int err = json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&ids) if err != nil { log.Fatal("Error decoding top stories JSON:", err) } // we are only interested in the first page of top stories const limit = 30 ids = ids[:limit] var stories [limit]Story for i, id := range ids { story := FetchStoryById(id) stories[i] = story } // Can't return [30]Story as []Story so we copy the array return stories[:] } func FetchStoryById(id ItemID) Story { url := fmt.Sprintf("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/%d.json", id) resp, err := http.Get(url) if err != nil { log.Fatal("Error fetching story:", err) } defer resp.Body.Close() log.Printf("GET %s %d\n", url, resp.StatusCode) var story Story err = json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&story) if err != nil { log.Fatal("Error decoding story JSON:", err) } return story } func ParseHackerNewsLink(link string) (ItemID, error) { match := HackerNewsLinkRegexp.FindStringSubmatch(link) if len(match) == 0 { return -1, errors.New("input is not a hacker news link") } id, err := strconv.Atoi(match[1]) if err != nil { // this should never happen panic(err) } return id, nil } func HackerNewsUserLink(user string) string { return fmt.Sprintf("%s/user?id=%s", HackerNewsUrl, user) } func HackerNewsItemLink(id int) string { return fmt.Sprintf("%s/item?id=%d", HackerNewsUrl, id) }