get_items_by_ids function

Get Hacker News by ids

Retrieves items corresponding to specified list of ids using Hacker News API

get_items_by_ids(ids)

Arguments

• ids: list of ids

Returns

list of hn_item objects

Details

Parallel api requests can be enabled by running future::plan(future::multiprocess)

Examples

# retrieve the first two items on Hacker News
items <- get_items_by_ids(c(1,2))
items

See Also

https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future.apply