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navigate-hacker-news-comments

v1.0.0

Published

Navigate in the DOM of a Hacker News comments page.

Downloads

8

Readme

navigate-hacker-news-comments

Navigate in the DOM of a Hacker News comments page.

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Installation

npm install navigate-hacker-news-comments

Usage

We assume that you run this code on a Hacker News post (such as this one) or comments page (such as this one). In the following examples, we will use the test/hn-post.html.

all comments

Let's find all comments, in the depth-first order in which they occur in the page:

const {findComments} = require('navigate-hacker-news-comments')

const comments = findComments(document)
while (true) {
	const {done, value: comment} = comments.next()
	if (done) break
	console.log(comment)
}

findComments is a generator function that walks the DOM step by step. It returns an iterator, so we can collect all comments using Array.from:

const allComments = Array.from(findComments(document))
console.log(...allComments.slice(0, 3))
{
	id: '23173572',
	parentId: '23172483',
	author: 'aazaa',
	age: '12 hours ago',
	text: '> ... Deno is (and always will be) a single…',
	level: 0,
}
{
	id: '23173707',
	parentId: '23173572',
	author: 'bgdam',
	age: '12 hours ago',
	text: 'See the thing about the sandbox…',
	level: 40,
}
{
	id: '23175634',
	parentId: '23173707',
	author: 'danShumway',
	age: '7 hours ago',
	text: `> That combined with the 'download…`,
	level: 80,
}

siblings

To find siblings (comments replying to the same parent) of a comment:

const {
	findCommentElement,
	findSiblings,
} = require('navigate-hacker-news-comments')

const foo = findCommentElement(document, '23174668')
const fooSiblings = findSiblings(document, foo)
Array.from(fooSiblings).length // 2

children

To find children of a comment:

const {findChildren} = require('navigate-hacker-news-comments')

const fooChildren = findChildren(document, foo)
Array.from(fooChildren).length // 4

Node.js

If you want to use this package in Node.js, use jsdom to emulate the DOM:

const {readFileSync} = require('fs')
const {JSDOM} = require('jsdom')

const post = readFileSync('path/to/hn-comments.html', {encoding: 'utf8'})
const {document} = new JSDOM(post).window

Contributing

If you have a question or need support using navigate-hacker-news-comments, please double-check your code and setup first. If you think you have found a bug or want to propose a feature, use the issues page.