HackerNews

Client Application for Hacker News API

How to Run

• Install Dependencies from requirements.txt using the following command python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run the application using application.py file
• To view api docs go to ./docs endpoint
• Add your Aylien APP_ID and ACCESS_KEY in HackerNews.py for the Scheduled Job to fetch story sentiments

Implementation

There are two parts of the implementation

1. Application to serve web pages and handle api calls
2. Scheduled job to update and store hacker news stories along with their sentiment in stories.json

This Way improve the load time and latency of searching hacker news story.
Due to the nature of Hacker News API, we have to make one api call per story which is not scalable. So we separate out the job to download the stories and fetch their sentiment which runs in every 12 hour interval (so we don't run out of 1000/day free calls from Aylien API)