Hacker News and HTTP Request integration

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How to connect Hacker News and HTTP Request

Step 1: Create a new workflow
Step 2: Add and configure nodes
Step 3: Connect
Step 4: Customize and extend your integration
Step 5: Test and activate your workflow

Step 1: Create a new workflow and add the first step

In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.

Hacker News and HTTP Request integration: Create a new workflow and add the first step

Step 2: Add and configure Hacker News and HTTP Request nodes

You can find Hacker News and HTTP Request in the nodes panel. Drag them onto your workflow canvas, selecting their actions. Click each node, choose a credential, and authenticate to grant n8n access. Configure Hacker News and HTTP Request nodes one by one: input data on the left, parameters in the middle, and output data on the right.

Hacker News and HTTP Request integration: Add and configure Hacker News and HTTP Request nodes

Step 3: Connect Hacker News and HTTP Request

A connection establishes a link between Hacker News and HTTP Request (or vice versa) to route data through the workflow. Data flows from the output of one node to the input of another. You can have single or multiple connections for each node.

Hacker News and HTTP Request integration: Connect Hacker News and HTTP Request

Step 4: Customize and extend your Hacker News and HTTP Request integration

Use n8n's core nodes such as If, Split Out, Merge, and others to transform and manipulate data. Write custom JavaScript or Python in the Code node and run it as a step in your workflow. Connect Hacker News and HTTP Request with any of n8n’s 1000+ integrations, and incorporate advanced AI logic into your workflows.

Hacker News and HTTP Request integration: Customize and extend your Hacker News and HTTP Request integration

Step 5: Test and activate your Hacker News and HTTP Request workflow

Save and run the workflow to see if everything works as expected. Based on your configuration, data should flow from Hacker News to HTTP Request or vice versa. Easily debug your workflow: you can check past executions to isolate and fix the mistake. Once you've tested everything, make sure to save your workflow and activate it.

Hacker News and HTTP Request integration: Test and activate your Hacker News and HTTP Request workflow

Community Insights using Qdrant, Python and Information Extractor

This n8n template is one of a 3-part series exploring use-cases for clustering vector embeddings:

Survey Insights
Customer Insights
Community Insights

This template demonstrates the Community Insights scenario where HN commments can be quickly grouped by similarity and an AI agent can generate insights on those groupings.

With this workflow, Researchers or HN users can quickly breakdown community consensus on a particular topic and identify frequently mentioned positives and negatives.

Sample Output: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQXaQU9XxsxnUIIeqmmf1PuYRuYtwviVXTv6Mz9Vo6_a4ty-XaJHSeZsptjWXS3wGGDG8Z4u16rvE7l/pubhtml

How it works

HN comments are imported via the Hacknews API node.
Comments are then inserted into a Qdrant collection carefully tagged with the Hackernews API metadata.
Comments are then fetched and are put through a clustering algorithm using the Python Code node. The Qdrant points are returned in clustered groups.
Each group is looped to fetch the payloads of the points and feed them to the AI agent to summarise and generate insights for.
The resulting insights and raw responses are then saved to the Google Spreadsheet for further analysis by the researcher or the HN user.

Requirements

Works best with lots of comments!
Qdrant Vectorstore for storing embeddings.
OpenAI account for embeddings and LLM.

Customising the Template

Adjust clustering parameters which make sense for your data.
Adjust sentimentality setting if comments are overwhelmingly negative at times.

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Community Insights using Qdrant, Python and Information Extractor

This n8n template is one of a 3-part series exploring use-cases for clustering vector embeddings: Survey Insights Customer Insights Community Insights This template demonstrates the Community Insights scenario where HN commments can be quickly grouped by similarity and an AI agent can generate insights on those groupings. With this workflow, Researchers or HN users can quickly breakdown community consensus on a particular topic and identify frequently mentioned positives and negatives. Sample Output: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQXaQU9XxsxnUIIeqmmf1PuYRuYtwviVXTv6Mz9Vo6_a4ty-XaJHSeZsptjWXS3wGGDG8Z4u16rvE7l/pubhtml How it works HN comments are imported via the Hacknews API node. Comments are then inserted into a Qdrant collection carefully tagged with the Hackernews API metadata. Comments are then fetched and are put through a clustering algorithm using the Python Code node. The Qdrant points are returned in clustered groups. Each group is looped to fetch the payloads of the points and feed them to the AI agent to summarise and generate insights for. The resulting insights and raw responses are then saved to the Google Spreadsheet for further analysis by the researcher or the HN user. Requirements Works best with lots of comments! Qdrant Vectorstore for storing embeddings. OpenAI account for embeddings and LLM. Customising the Template Adjust clustering parameters which make sense for your data. Adjust sentimentality setting if comments are overwhelmingly negative at times.

Build your own Hacker News and HTTP Request integration

Create custom Hacker News and HTTP Request workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.

Hacker News supported actions

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Article
User

Get Many

Get many items

Get

Get a Hacker News article

Get

Get a Hacker News user

Hacker News and HTTP Request integration details

Hacker News is a website that shares news and insights on computer science and entrepreneurship. It has over 5 million readers monthly, because of its secure platform and authentic information.

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