doytsujin / hackernews-button

Embeddable Hacker News button + vote counter for your site

Embeddable Hacker News vote / counter button

Async, embeddable submit + vote counter button for Hacker News.

• If the story has not been posted to HN, "Submit" button is shown, otherwise latest point count is displayed.
• Auto-detects Google Analytics and registers clicks events (see reports under Traffic Sources > Social > Social Plugins).

Embedding the button

Step 1, place the HN link where you want the button appear on the page:

<!-- Auto-detect URL of current page and title if necessary -->
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submit" class="hn-share-button">Vote on HN</a>

<!-- Override the URL and Title for the button -->
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submit" class="hn-share-button" data-title="Some Title" data-url="http://www.igvita.com/">Vote on HN</a>

Step 2, include the (async) javascript file:

<script src="//hnbutton.appspot.com/static/hn.min.js" async defer></script>

Note: you can safely embed multiple buttons on the same page.

Misc

• Kudos to @sbashyal and @stbullard for the button styling (hnlike.com)
• Kudos to Algolia for an awesome HN API
• (MIT License) - Copyright (c) 2012 Ilya Grigorik