Hacker News Reader

Just as a friendly FYI, HN now has an official API designed explicitly to stop folks from doing that.

For example, the whoishiring user[0] gives convenient access to every post[1] that would interest you.

0 = https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/whoishiring 1 = https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8681040

Just don't worry about normalizing the data. Just grab each post and treat it as a new job. Let me know if you need help. I'm pretty good with cheerio :)

I would create a new category for this since the formate will be much different than the regular HN Jobs.

Scraping is easy. Trying to figure out the best way to parse/display is hard.

well not so much the optimal browse structure for seo for job sites is fairy well understood by now - I worked on total jobs and other sites at my previous job for part of elsiveer