get_top_hn_posts.py

from __future__ importannotations

importrequests


defget_hackernews_story(story_id: str) ->dict:
url=f"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{story_id}.json?print=pretty"
returnrequests.get(url, timeout=10).json()


defhackernews_top_stories(max_stories: int=10) ->list[dict]:
"""
 Get the top max_stories posts from HackerNews - https://news.ycombinator.com/
 """
url="https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty"
story_ids=requests.get(url, timeout=10).json()[:max_stories]
return [get_hackernews_story(story_id) forstory_idinstory_ids]


defhackernews_top_stories_as_markdown(max_stories: int=10) ->str:
stories=hackernews_top_stories(max_stories)
return"\n".join("* [{title}]({url})".format(**story) forstoryinstories)


if__name__=="__main__":
print(hackernews_top_stories_as_markdown())