fenryka / hackernews_scraper

Command-line tool for loading Hacker News Headlines

What is this for

It was an interview question for a job interview I didn't get. Apparently it's over complciated (unfair) and not that well tested (fair, but there is a limit to what I'm going to do in an evening to join your company). I wouldn't use anything here :)

Dependencies

• Python 2.7

Python Dependencies

intstall with pip

• pycurl
• validators

Explanation

I chose pycurl to handle the http api requests as that's what it does

Validators I found after googling to solve the problem of actually validating a URL without pulling in a large amount of dependencies on something like django

Running

./hackernews.py

use the -h flag to see options and their explanation

Testing

Tests use the python unittest library

./hackernews_tests.py

To run a specific test (for example)

python -m unittest hackernews_tests.tests.test_errors