hackernews-frontpage
Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).
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- hackernews-frontpage
- description
- Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).
- host
- news.ycombinator.com
- trusted
- true
- source
- human
- version
- 1.0.0
- args
- []
- triggers
- ["scrape hacker news frontpage","scrape hn frontpage","get hn top stories","latest hacker news stories"]
# Hacker News front-page scraper
Scrapes the Hacker News (`news.ycombinator.com`) front page and returns the
top 30 stories as JSON. Each story has its rank, title, link URL, point count,
and comment count.
## Usage
```
$ $B skill run hackernews-frontpage
{
"stories": [
{ "rank": 1, "title": "...", "url": "...", "points": 412, "comments": 87 },
...
],
"count": 30
}
```
## How it works
1. Navigates to `https://news.ycombinator.com` via the daemon.
2. Reads the page HTML.
3. Parses each story row (HN's stable `tr.athing` structure) into a typed
`Story` record.
4. Emits a single JSON document on stdout.
## Why this is the reference skill
`hackernews-frontpage` is the smallest interesting browser-skill: no auth,
stable HTML, deterministic output, file-fixture-friendly. Every Phase 1
component (SDK, scoped tokens, three-tier lookup, spawn lifecycle) is
exercised by `$B skill run hackernews-frontpage` and the bundled
`script.test.ts`.
When the HN HTML rotates and our selectors break, the test fails against the
captured fixture before users notice. That's the point.
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