Merge pull request #134 from Ell/master

Added support for retrieving information from hackernews urls

plugins/hackernews.py

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+from util import http, hook
+
+
+@hook.regex(r'(?i)https://(?:www\.)?news\.ycombinator\.com\S*id=(\d+)')
+def hackernews(match):
+    base_api = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/'
+    entry = http.get_json(base_api + match.group(1) + ".json")
+
+    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)
+