From 1a6b665e060e881b95d3eb6701f44abaa84d2b54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ell <alan@cattes.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:01:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added support for retrieving information from hackernews urls

---
 plugins/hackernews.py | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 plugins/hackernews.py

diff --git a/plugins/hackernews.py b/plugins/hackernews.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a707d8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/hackernews.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import re
+import urlparse
+
+from util import http, hook
+
+
+base_api = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/'
+
+
+def get_by_id(id):
+    url = base_api + id + ".json?print=pretty"
+
+    try:
+        return http.get_json(url)
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+
+@hook.regex(r'(?i)https://(?:www\.)?news\.ycombinator\.com(?:/.+)?')
+def hackernews(match):
+    parsed = urlparse.urlparse(match.group())
+    id = urlparse.parse_qs(parsed.query)['id'][0]
+    entry = get_by_id(id)
+
+    if not entry:
+        return
+
+    if entry['type'] == "story":
+        return "{title} by {by} with {score} points and {descendants} comments ({url})".format(**entry)
+
+    if entry['type'] == "comment":
+        return '"{text}" -- {by}'.format(**entry)
+