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May be better to use the official API.

http://www.hnsearch.com/api

If it were an official API, wouldn't it be associated with HN or Y Combinator rather than an external website?

It is by a YC company, and recommended by pg.

That's not an official API: http://www.hnsearch.com/about

Quote: "HNSearch was built by the team at ThriftDB to give back to the community and to test the capabilities of the ThriftDB flexible datastore with search built-in."

Interesting API all the same though.

Regardless whether it is official or not, it is pg's preferred api: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4694308

The robots.txt file for HN suggests a Crawl-Delay value of 30 seconds.

This might be helpful: http://api.ihackernews.com/

edit: oh, official API is above. Disregard this one :-)