Hacker News

HackerNews enables an Agent to search Hacker News website.

Example

The following agent will write an engaging summary of the users with the top 2 stories on hackernews along with the stories.

1from kern.agent import Agent
2from kern.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools
3
4agent = Agent(
5    name="Hackernews Team",
6    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
7        markdown=True,
8)
9
10agent.print_response(
11    "Write an engaging summary of the "
12    "users with the top 2 stories on hackernews. "
13    "Please mention the stories as well.",
14)

Toolkit Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`enable_get_top_stories`	`bool`	`True`	Enables fetching top stories.
`enable_get_user_details`	`bool`	`True`	Enables fetching user details.
`all`	`bool`	`False`	Enables all functionality.

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
`get_top_hackernews_stories`	Retrieves the top stories from Hacker News. Parameters include `num_stories` to specify the number of stories to return (default is 10). Returns the top stories in JSON format.
`get_user_details`	Retrieves the details of a Hacker News user by their username. Parameters include `username` to specify the user. Returns the user details in JSON format.

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