Simple script for embedding Hacker News comments in a blog or article. Contributions from stuartquin (@stu_quin) and saralk (@saralk).
Hosted
The version hosted on hncomments.custardapp.com is intended for demo purposes only. For ensured reliability please clone and self host.
If people really like the hosted version please get in touch and we can discuss solutions for a more permenant, guaranteed hosted service.
Usage
Simply embed the following script in your blog or article:
<div id="hncomments" data-post-id="..."></div> <script src="http://hncomments.custardapp.com/main.js"></script>
data Parameters
The id="hncomments" element supports a range of data- parameters:
- data-post-id: required Integer. ID of the hackernews comment thread
- data-max-comments: Integer. Amount of comments to display
- data-style: Boolean. If set to true the comments will be styled like the 'classic' hackernews feed.
Example
<div id="hncomments" data-max-comments="3" data-style="true" data-post-id="5775816"></div>
Installation
hncomments is written in nodejs. It makes requests to and scrapes the required Hacker News comment streams.
git clone https://github.com/stuartquin/hncomments.git cd hncomments npm install . node app.js
By default hncomments uses http://redis.io/ for caching scraped comment feeds from Hacker News.
You can change this behaviour by setting --cache memory on the command line. Run node app.js --help
for full range of options
