Get Story/Post information from the Hacker News API

hn_api_extract_info.py

import requests

def get_response(story_type):
    url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/' + story_type + 'stories.json'
    response = requests.get(url)
    story_id_data = response.json()

    return story_id_data

def get_story_ids(stories, size):
    story_ids_reqd = list()

    for i in range(0, size):
        story_ids_reqd.append(stories[i])

    return story_ids_reqd

def get_story_data(story_ids):
    stories = dict()

    for story_id in story_ids:
        url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/' + str(story_id) + '.json'
        story_response = requests.get(url)
        story_data = story_response.json()

        story_by = get_field_data(story_data,'by')
        story_title = get_field_data(story_data,'title')
        story_url = get_field_data(story_data,'url')
        story_score = get_field_data(story_data,'score')

        story_data_values = '{};{};{};{}'.format(story_by,story_title,story_url,story_score)
        stories[story_id] = story_data_values

    return stories

def get_field_data(story_data, field):
    if field not in story_data:
        response = ''
    else:
        response = story_data[field]

    return response

stories_all = get_response(type)
stories_reqd = get_story_ids(stories_all,size=5)
stories_data = get_story_data(stories_reqd)
print(stories_data)