Adding Indie Hackers(IH) in dashboard

karakanb / devo

A Chrome and Firefox extension that displays GitHub Trending, Hacker News, Product Hunt and Designer News on every new tab.

https://burakkarakan.com/devo/

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Adding Indie Hackers(IH) in dashboard #36

Closed ganeshmani closed 3 years ago

ganeshmani commented 4 years ago

it would be nice to have Indie Hackers(IH) top pages in the dashboard.

karakanb commented 4 years ago

I agree, I have been thinking about doing it for a long while now, but scraping seems to be against their Terms of Service, and they have no official API. I have also tried contacting Courtland on Twitter, but I couldn't get a reply.

There might be things I missed, feel free to suggest how to implement it.

ganeshmani commented 3 years ago

Yeah. No API for it. is it possible to automate via scraping or using web drivers? . BTW, how do you do it for Designer News ?

karakanb commented 3 years ago

Designer News have their own API, just like the others. I crawl things like GitHub Trending for example, but given the complexity of the IndieHackers UI and its ever-changing nature, I will not be building anything that is not based on an API. Feel free to ping me or contribute directly in case the API ever becomes a reality though.