HN Favs API

A lightweight API to fetch and cache Hacker News favorites (stories or comments) for any user.

Features

Retrieve a user's favorite stories or comments from Hacker News.
Handles pagination and retries with quadratic backoff.
Caches responses for 24 hours to improve performance and reduce server load.
Built with Hono and Cheerio for fast and efficient processing.

Endpoints

Base url: https://hn-favs.byt3h3ad.workers.dev

1. Fetch User's Favorites

Stories: GET /:username/stories
Comments: GET /:username/comments

Example:

curl https://hn-favs.byt3h3ad.workers.dev/byt3h3ad/stories

2. Delete Cached Response

GET /:username/:type/delete-cache

Example:

curl https://hn-favs.byt3h3ad.workers.dev/byt3h3ad/stories/delete-cache

Response Format

Stories

[
  {
	"id": 42214331,
	"title": "What made Dostoevsky's work immortalwyounas.com",
	"url": "https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/what-made-dostoevsky-immortal",
	"hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42214331",
	"type": "story"
},
]

Comments

[
  {
	"id": 22446090,
	"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22446090",
	"user": "bori5",
	"type": "comment"
},
]