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Grab timestamps for all your Hacker News comments
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hn_timestamps.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import json
import re
import urllib.request
if __name__ == "__main__":
comments = json.load(urllib.request.urlopen("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/saagarjha.json"))["submitted"][::-1]
for comment in comments:
timestamp = json.load(urllib.request.urlopen("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/" + str(comment) + ".json"))["time"]
print(str(timestamp), flush=True)
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