Comment by costco
3 years ago
HN Firebase API. I just wrote a program in C++ with libcurl to get https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json, https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/2.json, https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/3.json, ...
Why didn't you use the google bigquery?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440502
I was aware there was a HN dataset on BigQuery but I had never used a library to work with it before and when I played around on the website the posts I got were all from 2015 at the latest. It probably would've made my work easier but there's not really anything I can do about it now.