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Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).

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name
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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