Curiosity

Hacker News

Pulls stories from Hacker News (Front, Ask HN, Show HN, Jobs) and stores them as _WebPage nodes grouped by section.

variant=info text="Web / feeds" variant=secondary text="Anonymous"

What gets ingested

Element Mapped to
Story _WebPage
Job _WebPage (separately tagged)
Author _Contact

Authentication

  • Type: Anonymous (public Hacker News API).

Access control mapping

  • _AccessGroup.Public.

Sync cadence

  • Default cron: every 8 hours.
  • Retention: configurable — anywhere from 1 week to 5 years. Old items are auto-cleaned by the connector.

Notable

  • Built on the HackerNews.Reader library.
  • A useful "small, complete" example of a periodic public-data connector — see the HackerNewsTask.cs source for one of the smallest functional integrations.