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952189173 MDU6SXNzdWU5NTIxODkxNzM= 3 Use HN algolia endpoint to retrieve trees 9599 open 0     3 2021-07-25T03:35:27Z 2021-07-25T18:41:17Z   MEMBER  

The trees command currently has to make a request for every single comment. Algolia have an endpoint that bundles the entire thread together into a single request.

https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/ID

Here's an example that loads quickly, with about 50 comments: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/27941108

It doesn't appear to use pagination at all - if a thread is big then the response is big.

I ran this search to find some stories with more than 1000 comments: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=story&numericFilters=num_comments%3E=1000

Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967 with 4759 comments. Hitting the API takes 41s and returns 3.7 MB of JSON! wget 'https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/25015967' 0.03s user 0.04s system 0% cpu 41.368 total /tmp % ls -lah 25015967 -rw-r--r-- 1 simon wheel 3.7M Jul 24 20:31 25015967

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