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		plibither8 on Sept 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most-favorited Hacker News posts The "favorites" feature is amazing and just rightly inconspicuous. On my website, https://mihir.ch/#hn, I've been collecting and displaying my favorited posts and comments from an API I created for this purpose only. The API: https://hn-faves.now.sh Source: https://github.com/plibither8/hn-faves-api

gitgud on Sept 2, 2020 [–]

Thanks for sharing your source too! I was curious how you got a web scraper on a small now.sh server (45mb)

Usually I'd use puppeteer, but that would make it like 400mb. I've never heard of [1] x-ray, it looks a great package for lightweight containers!

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/x-ray

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