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To clarify I'm not asking about HN itself but articles linked from HN.

As you said the HN api is great and there are at least 2 existing published crawls of it that help a lot.

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> To clarify I'm not asking about HN itself but articles linked from HN.

I might not have a clear picture of what you're looking for, but items of type "story" returned by the HN API do have a URL field, which I believe correspond to submitted links.

You can scrape the text field of comment items, but that takes a bit more work.

Hopefull this will help: you're talking about a submission to HN, e.g. a link to a WSJ article complete with comments section, and OP is talking about the specific WSJ article.

The fastest way to get that would probably still be through HN's API, you just have to take the URL field for stories and ignore everything else.

And how do you get the content once you have the URL?

Use IA more responsibly, perhaps. Instead of scraping it, convert the list of links from HN to point to IA? You still have to work with whatever limits the site puts up in any case.

> And how do you get the content once you have the URL?

I don't understand your question. If you have the URL, you just GET it, like any regular URL? Is there something that I'm missing?

Many domains have expired or content is no longer available.

If a HN story is a link to Wikipedia, the HN api serves the content of the Wikipedia page??

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