Hacker News API

This project is a simple API that fetches and caches the best stories from Hacker News.

Features

• Fetches best stories from Hacker News API
• Caches the stories in memory for faster subsequent requests
• Supports specifying the number of stories to fetch

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Open the project in Visual Studio
3. Run the project. you will be greeted with a local encryption certificate you can accept that or decline it and use the http version of the API.
4. The API will be available at http://localhost:5692

Usage

The main endpoint is /bestStories/{numberOfStories}, where numberOfStories is the number of stories you want to fetch.

License