Data Science Flask App

Build Week App

The Flask app mimics the design of Hacker News while using the Lambda School color scheme. Currently it provides five JSON endpoints.

Returns a dict of the 100 users with the highest average salt scores.

Endpoint: https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-users

Sample command: curl https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-users

Returns: {"Aloha":-1.5098,"BoppreH":-3.2191,"Dewie3":-1.5155,"Dilpil":-2.0146,"GHFigs":-4.1276,"Guvante":-1.5535,"Nick_C":-1.8424, ... }

Returns a dict of the 100 comments with the highest salt scores.

Endpoint: https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-comments

Sample command: curl https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-comments

Returns: {"Fuck war, too? Right?":-1.6249, "No":-1.296, ... }

Returns a dict of the hours of the day and the number of comments which score below -0.5.

Endpoint: https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-hours

Sample command: curl https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-hours

Returns: {"0.0":35,"1.0":41,"2.0":24,"3.0":39,"4.0":28,"5.0":23,"6.0":23,"7.0":14,"8.0":20,"9.0":28,... "23.0":43}

Returns a dict of days of the week and the the number of comments which score below -0.5. Mondays are 1.0.

Endpoint: https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-days

Sample command: curl https://saltines.herokuapp.com/salty-days

Returns: {"1.0":128,"2.0":124,"3.0":141,"4.0":144,"5.0":158,"6.0":95,"7.0":117}

Returns a dict of comments and scores of a given user

Endpoint: https://saltines.herokuapp.com/user-comments/(username)

Sample command: curl https://saltines.herokuapp.com/user-comments/patio11

Returns: {"* What justifies the laws that compelled my parents to send me to a place they knew (at some level) was hurting me? Benign paternalism which says \"X% of students really dislike the experience of attending school. The average case for dropouts is 'totally $&$#ed.' We'll institutionalize them now because it is a darn sight cheaper than institutionalizing them later, permanently.\"":-0.731 ... }