hn-cli/api.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import requests
from dataclasses import dataclass
@dataclass
class Story:
    id: int
    title: str
    link: str
    author: str
    votes: int
    comments: int
    read: bool

def get_topstories():
    # Query Hacker News API for top stories and their titles/links
    # returns the top 500 stories, so quite enough.
    url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json'
    r = requests.get(url)
    if not r.ok:
        raise Exception('Error fetching data from Hacker News API')
    return r.json()

def get_story(story_id):
    story_url = f'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{story_id}.json'
    s = requests.get(story_url).json()
    return Story(s['id'],
                 s['title'],
                 s['url'] if 'url' in s else 'No URL',
                 s['by'],
                 s['score'],
                 len(s['kids']) if 'kids' in s else 0, False)

def main():
    ts = get_topstories()
    s = get_story(ts[0])
    print(s)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()