Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

Fetching top story IDs on Hacker News

First, we will create a module called HackerNewsAnalysis. The very first function is going to retrieve the top stories from Hacker News. The code for this is as follows:

using HTTPusing JSON3function fetch_top_stories()    url = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json"    response = HTTP.request("GET", url)    return JSON3.read(String(response.body))end

How does it work? Let's try it out:

Let's take several steps and dissect the logic in this function. The top stories can be retrieved from a fixed URL. Here, we have used the HTTP package for fetching data from web services. The HTTP.request function ...