Add simplified working version

Author: kxzk

hack-scraper/Cargo.toml

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+[package]
+name = "hack-scraper"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["blocking"] }
+scraper = "0.13.0"
+prettytable-rs = "0.9.0"

hack-scraper/src/main.rs

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+extern crate reqwest;
+#[macro_use] extern crate prettytable;
+use prettytable::Table;
+use scraper::{Html, Selector};
+
+fn get_hacker_news_data() -> Result<String, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let hn_txt = reqwest::blocking::get("https://news.ycombinator.com/")?
+        .text()?;
+
+    Ok(hn_txt)
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let hn_txt = get_hacker_news_data().unwrap();
+
+    let document = Html::parse_document(&hn_txt);
+
+    let stories = Selector::parse("td:nth-child(3) > span > a").unwrap();
+
+    let mut table = Table::new();
+
+    for story in document.select(&stories) {
+        let story_link = story.value().attr("href").unwrap();
+        let story_txt = story.text().collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        if story_txt[0] == "login" {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        table.add_row(row![FdBybl->story_txt[0]]);
+        table.add_row(row![Fy->story_link]);
+    }
+
+    table.printstd();
+}