Hacker News API examples & templates
Use these vals as a playground to view and fork Hacker News API examples and templates on Val Town. Run any example below or find templates that can be used as a pre-built solution.
visnup
harpers
HTTP
An interesting Harper's message of the day when I open a shell. Setup crontab to grab updates on the first of the month 10 0 1 * * curl -s https://visnup-harpers.web.val.run > $HOME/.motd ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_greeting.fish to pick a random line on new fish shell; other shell support left to the reader function fish_greeting
set line (random 1 (cat ~/.motd | wc -l))
awk "NR==$line" ~/.motd | fold -s -w (tput cols)
end
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kylem
gitReleaseNotes
HTTP
Github Release Notes from package.json Enter a raw github URL to a package.json, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/username/repo/branch/package.json and get a response of all release notes for all packages from current to latest. Roadmap [ ] GenAI summary [ ] Weekly cron email reports [ ] Send update PRs [ ] Other package managers like PyPi [ ] Formatting/styling [ ] Loading spinner
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