But there is an official API? Is it bad?

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29627395.json?pri...

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29630771.json?pri...

Please respect https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt, which asks people not to crawl the site more than once per 30s. HN's app server runs on a single core and we don't have a lot of performance to spare.