Maybe you could provide that service for a small fee.
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=author_ilaksh,comm...
You'll need to paginate it, as it's limited to 50 results per page, like so:
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=author_ilaksh,comment&hitsPerPage=50&page=1select * from `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` where `by` = 'ilaksh' and type = 'comment' order by timestamp desc
EDIT: seems this is out of date
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ilaksh
Is it just that you want to host it on your own domain?
To be honest I don't remember what the exact status is; it should work because I have a large TOML file with all my comments. But I don't recall if there's anything "TODO" or if I just forgot to publish it.
Need to put your cookie in the variable at the top.
https://gist.github.com/arp242/4f88069cdc8166d21aa26daac7ffe...
Please remember that users gave a license to their content only to HN, not everyone. Using their data without their consent might come afoul of copyright laws.
I suggest reading the legal print: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.
It says here I grant Y combinator (and its affiliated companies; hm...) a licence, not that I grant it to some rando with a scrapper (or using an API). Anyone that's not Y combinator (and its affiliated companies; hm....) that's using my content posted here is doing so without any licence to do so from me, potentially violating my copyright rights.
We're talking about Hacker News, not Instagram.
>It says here I grant Y combinator (and its affiliated companies; hm...) a licence, not that I grant it to some rando with a scrapper (or using an API).
And yet Hacker News has an API and plenty of people use it, implying that Hacker News considers the use of its own API to be valid within the context of its "license" and by extension any application also using the API.
Feel free to lawyer up and sue, though, and let us know how it goes. I don't think it'll go as well as you seem to believe.
The mere fact the API exist doesn't necessarily mean it's legal or that it respect copyright laws. It just means nobody legally tested it yet.
My suspicion is that a licence granted to entity only extends to that entity, even if that entity provides content via html or json.