hackerpub

Post items to Hacker News

Installation

$ npm install --save hackerpub

Usage

The example shown below will post a link on HackerNews.

var hackerpub = require('hackerpub');

hackerpub({
  username: '{{your HN username}}',
  password: '{{your HN password}}',
  title: 'Example Blog Article',
  url: 'http://exampleblog.com/articles/example-blog-article'
}, done);

function done (err, res, body, discuss) {
  // handle response
}

API

hackerpub(options, done)

Posts an article on HN by making a series of requests against their website. Takes some options, detailed below.

Property | Description -----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ username | Your HackerNews username, used to authenticate, and to post the news on your behalf password | Your HackerNews password, used to authenticate title | A title for the news item url | The URL to the news item text | A description of the news item

Note that url and text are exclusive. If you include both, the url will take precedence and the text will be ignored.

When the requests against HN are done, the done callback will be invoked with four arguments.

• err will have an error if one occurred, and null otherwise
• res will be a response object
• body will be the response body
• discuss will be a link to the discussion on Hacker News

CLI

The CLI has a simple interface. You'll be asked for your credentials once, and they'll be stored at ~/.hpub. You can edit that file directly, the CLI expects YAML.

$ cat ~/.hpub

username: foo,
password: foo

$ hpub -t "some title" -u http://exampleblog.com -x "some text"
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=$YOUR_HN_DISCUSSION

CLI Usage

Usage:
  hpub <options>

Options:
  -t, --title      | Title for the news item
  -u, --url, --uri | URL to the news item
  -x, --text       | Text describing the news item

Note that you should use either an URL or the --text option.

License

MIT