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hackernews-realtime-listener

v2.0.1

Published

Get realtime Hacker News updates

Downloads

7

Readme

Hacker News Realtime Listener

NPM version

This JavaScript package allows you to listen to Hacker News stories and comments in real time. It uses the Hacker News API.

Usage

This package exports a default function called listen() that accepts a required callback function as its argument.

Example:


const { default: listen } = require("hackernews-realtime-listener")

const listener = listen(item => {
    // Do something with the item here.
    // For the item schema, see https://github.com/HackerNews/API#items

    console.log(item)
})

With advanced options:

const { default: listen } = require("hackernews-realtime-listener")

const listener = listen(item => {
    // ...
})

Note: When listen() or start() is called, it immediately triggers the callback with the latest item.

To stop listening, just call listener.stop(), and to start listening again, call listener.start() (the listener is the return value of the listen() function).

Pretty simple, isn't it?

Lower level API

This package also provides a lower level object-based API.

Example:

const { RealtimeListener } = require("hackernews-realtime-listener")

const listener = new RealtimeListener(() => {
    // The callback...
}).start() // You can also call start() later on the RealtimeListener object, just like listen().

Usage in the browser

To use this package in the browser, you can use the Skypack CDN:

<script type="module">
    import listen from "https://cdn.skypack.dev/hackernews-realtime-listener"

    // ...
</script>

Right now, we don't have a minified JS bundle. Maybe in the future.