Ask HN: Can you access old HN posts?

7 pointsby harlequinetcievor 4 Monaten6 comments

I've been trying to access some old posts, and I just see a 'Sorry.' message.

Is that happening to all?

7 comments

This is the newest post I can see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233969 (I did a good old binary search :D)

The API still works fine tho, i.e. via https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/<n>.json

joastvor 4 Monaten

I wouldn't say it works fine. There are problems starting with item id of 47398575. There are many items where the API returns "null" (that is the complete body in the reponse). However, the items are there if you view them without the API (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398575).

harlequinetcievor 4 Monaten

Got it, so basically anything before 2 weeks ago is gone. Txs!

gus_massavor 4 Monaten

Have you tried with https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?

coinfusedvor 4 Monaten

I got the same issue, it returns a HTTP 429 Too Many Requests

draw_downvor 4 Monaten