https://github.com/bitkeks/hn-vis

Visualization of the Hacker News frontpage with Python and R.
https://github.com/bitkeks/hn-vis

data-visualization ffmpeg scraping

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Visualization of the Hacker News frontpage with Python and R.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bitkeks/hn-vis
• Owner: bitkeks
• License: other
• Created: 2017-09-11T11:22:19.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-09-11T15:57:07.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-06T17:46:26.945Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: data-visualization, ffmpeg, scraping
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://blog.netdecorator.org/2017/09/visualizing-the-hacker-news-frontpage.html
• Size: 2.31 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Hacker News visualizations

This repo contains Python and R scripts related to my experiment I wrote about [on my blog](https://blog.netdecorator.org/2017/09/visualizing-the-hacker-news-frontpage.html).

`collector.py` uses Python3.6 with requests, BeautifoulSoup and lxml to periodically collect JSON snapshots of the Hacker News front page.

`analyzer.R` uses R with jsonlite and ggplot2 to produce PNG graph images from the produced JSON files.

Rendering the PNGs into a full video then looks like this:


![demo video](demo.gif)