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Hacker News

Hacker News (sometimes abbreviated as HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

This notebook covers how to pull page data and comments from Hacker News

from langchain_community.document_loaders import HNLoader

API Reference:

loader = HNLoader("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881")
data = loader.load()
data[0].page_content[:300]
"delta_p_delta_x 73 days ago  \n             | next [–] \n\nAstrophysical and cosmological simulations are often insightful. They're also very cross-disciplinary; besides the obvious astrophysics, there's networking and sysadmin, parallel computing and algorithm theory (so that the simulation programs a"
data[0].metadata
{'source': 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34817881',
'title': 'What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles?'}

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