gethackernews

HackerNewsNodeModule

Just a wee module to help out with a project - grabs the most recent stuff from hacker news every 5 mins.

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###0.0.0

The way I have it set up currently:

• In middleware.js:
  var newsScrape = require('gethackernews');
• In exports.initLocals:
  locals.hotnews = newsScrape.hotnews;

Then in the jade tempate

-var hotNews = eval("( " + locals.hotnews + ")");
-for (var i = 0; i < 10; i ++) {
	li
		a(href=hotNews.hits[i].url, target="_blank")= 
							hotNews.hits[i].title
-}

you could just do each hit in hotNews.hits but I was only after 10, not the full 60(ish - I think) articles that it gets.

=== If anyone else is interested, or if any future projects use this I'll probably look into formatting and sanitising the hotnews variable, it's just a string at the moment which is why the jade is evaluating it into JSON.