Hook - Product Hunt API — Unofficial Product Hunt API for retrieving today's hunts

Sorry for the delays! It's been a busy day. :) @karangoel - wow, dude. Nice work. You even made some updates since posting it earlier this morning. We've been chatting for the past few weeks about opening up an API. I'll keep everyone up to date when we have an official API ready (won't be too long). What's awesome is that this community is full of talented builders and product-minded folks. I've even thought about putting together a Product Hunt hackathon (any interest?). Please note that we're redesigning the site and adding new things so we can't guarantee Karan's API/scraper won't be affected by these changes.

Love what you build - i build a similar scraper for my chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/websto... I used the cheerio npm for data extraction - can recommend it over jquery and similar solutions. Would there be an interest in an official PH read-only API ?

@andreasklinger I think the link you gave is your admin link, not the link to the actual extension (is asking me to login etc)

@KeeranRavee remove + local hackathon is what I was thinking. We have people all over the world so I'd like to include more people.

@_jacksmith: New UI's for PH, or some statistics? Possibilities are endless. @TosinAF Nice. That was fast.

@rrhoover @karangoel An idea for you "Hunt of the day!" or "Clash of Hunts" The screen splits of two. In each side, there is a screenshoot (or iframe site) of random hunt. People, choose one of them. Then, a new random sets appear. At the end, the winner will be chosen by wisdom of crowds.

@karangoel It can be ranked by success rate. And to be ranked maybe hunts needs min comparison number. so, it would be fair.

Yo guys. I have been toying with a scraper for PH for some time now, and was really motivated after seeing @TosinAF 's thread and packaged all I had in a neat API. Try it here! Currently it gets today's posts, and has a cache of 1 hour. I hope to see people make a ton of good stuff with it. :) PS: I make a lot of cool stuff, and people love it. Leave your e-mail here and stay tuned about my projects. PPS: Donations UPDATE: The API can now return comments for any product. Here's an example: http://hook-api.herokuapp.com/po...

UPDATE: The API can now return comments for any product. Here's an example: http://hook-api.herokuapp.com/po...

@rrhoover Yeah I just made some improvements today. re: hackathon. yes. totally. I'm actually flying to Bay Area for this summer so count me in. re: redesign. I'll update mine when you redesign and it's broken (unless of course PH launches a public API).

@ozguralaz That's a good idea. But I think products posted earlier in the day will have an advantage than newer ones.

Thanks to @karangoel 's quick work, I have a demo of the news with Product Hunt Included :) Have a look at it on app.io -> http://bit.ly/UyxKqh ; swipe left on right on the nav bar Hit me up on twitter, if you want early access to this (beta) :)

@karangoel Awesome work! Thanks for the API @rrhoover if it's possible to take part in the hackathon remotely then count me in :)

YO! For anyone who would like to use this api to create an iOS/OSX app, I created an Objective-c for Hook. https://github.com/TosinAF/PHMan... Enjoy! Will update to the official API when that comes out.

This is freaking awesome. I want to build a StumbleUpon/HackMatch style app that feeds you products based on what you up/down-vote now!

cool stuff. what can you imagine as some of the main use-cases?

@rrhoover Your thoughts on this product?

Is this @rrhoover approved?

Ruby gem plans anyone? I'd help/host on that.

@TosinAF got it; makes sense now. the demo makes it more clear