hackernews1.py

import requests

#url = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/9884165.json"
url = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json"
r = requests.get(url)
print("Status code:", r.status_code)

submission_ids = r.json()
submission_dicts = []

for submission_id in submission_ids[:3]:
    url = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/" + str(submission_id) + ".json"
    submission_r = requests.get(url)
    print(submission_r.status_code)
    response_dict = submission_r.json()
    submission_dict = {
            "title": response_dict["title"],
            "link": "http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=" + str(submission_id),
            "comments": response_dict.get("descendants", 0)
        }
    submission_dicts.append(submission_dict )

for submission_dict in submission_dicts:
    print(submission_dict["title"])