get_item_by_id function

Get Hacker News by Id

Retrieves the item corresponding to specified id using Hacker News API

get_item_by_id(id)

Arguments

• id: id of the item that should be retrieved

Returns

item corresponding to the specified id

Details

The API in some cases returns a null response. When this situation occurs it is assumed that the item does not exist and NA is returned.

Examples

# retrieve the id of the latest Hacker News item
last_item_id <- get_max_item_id()
last_item_id

# retrieve the latest Hacker News item
last_hn_item <- get_item_by_id(last_item_id)
last_hn_item