About

A Go-based toolset for analyzing https://news.ycombinator.com data.

whoishiring scraper

The scraper pulls data from the official Hacker News Firebase API and stores it in a local datastore file (whoishiring.db.json). It maintains three logical collections:

• scrape_users
• scrape_items
• analytic_items

Run it with:

go run ./cmd/hnanalytics

Development

• Go 1.22+
• make (optional convenience commands)

Useful commands

make run
make test
make fmt