Now, since the beginning of the API contest announcement, HNSearch's API does not reveal score for comments that are less than 5 days old. After studying the API, I figured out a way to bypass this restriction. If you construct a faceted query for the "points" field with a search query that is narrow enough to get exactly 1 hit, the facet result will reveal the vote score for that comment (e.g. "9 points" has 1 hit).
When I submitted my entry to HNSearch, Andres emailed me back and told me to disable revealing vote scores for comments that are less than 5 days old. In addition, they modified their API to restrict my query.
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Now, since the beginning of the API contest announcement, HNSearch's API does not reveal score for comments that are less than 5 days old. After studying the API, I figured out a way to bypass this restriction. If you construct a faceted query for the "points" field with a search query that is narrow enough to get exactly 1 hit, the facet result will reveal the vote score for that comment (e.g. "9 points" has 1 hit).
When I submitted my entry to HNSearch, Andres emailed me back and told me to disable revealing vote scores for comments that are less than 5 days old. In addition, they modified their API to restrict my query.