Show HN: Export HN Favorites to a CSV File, Hacker News

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		Show HN: Export HN Favorites to a CSV File
(points) by gabrielsroka 1 hour ago
I wrote a short JavaScript snippet to export HN Favorites to a CSV file. It runs in your browser like a browser extension. It scrapes the HTML and navigates from page to page. Setup and usage instructions are in the file. (Check out) (https://gabrielsroka.github.io/getHNFestival.js or to view the source code, see getHNFestival.js on https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io

			simonw minutes ago It’s a shame favorites aren’t exposed in the official HN API: https://github.com/HackerNews/ API – this is a smart workaround. (reply
	dang 120 minutes ago Our plan is for the next version of HN’s API to simply serve a JSON version of every page. I’m hoping to get to that this. reply
	simonw minutes ago That would be amazing! I’ve been having some fun with the API recently building this tool: https://github.com/dogsheep/ hacker-news-to-sqlite 2322788526 reply
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dang minutes ago If you (or anyone) want to be on an alpha-tester list, email hn @ ycombinator.com and we can add you. reply
	gabrielsroka 34 minutes ago Thanks Simon. I’d originally written this script to export my DVD ratings from Netflix, since there’s no API for that either. It was easy to adapt it to HN. I wanted to show people that it’s possible (and easy) to get to your own data! (reply			dvfjsdhgfv (1 minute ago) This is smart. I’m adding this to my HN favorites. 34 reply