Ability to retrieve comments for a paper returned from /api/papers

[tleyden]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The get daily papers api returns a list of papers, but I don't see an easy way to fetch the comments for that paper.

One of the returned values is a discussionId, however I'm not sure how to use that to fetch comments.

Describe the solution you'd like
Either some documentation that explains how to use the discussionId to fetch the comments, or a separate API endpoint like /api/daily_papers/comments that returned the discussion comments for the paper.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Web scraping, but it's a lot of extra work, and wasteful in terms of compute and bandwidth on both sides.

Additional context
I'm open to submitting a PR if someone will sign up to review it. Let me know the PR guidelines.

I'm building a mobile app with a feature to navigate the Hugging Face Top Papers.

[Wauplin]

Hi @tleyden, there is currently no way to retrieve a paper's discussion from the API. We could add a new route server-side for it if it can be impactful. What is your mobile app designed for? Would it be ok for now not the display comments? (or redirect to a web view?)

[tleyden]

Hey @Wauplin thanks for the feedback. The app is a voice assistant, so it has to pull in the raw data to feed the voice LLM, and there's no visual display to redirect to.

I was able to work around it by scraping the HTML, but it's a bunch of nasty brittle code I'd love to throw away

I thought the comments API might be helpful to anyone else using the API, so no problem if you want to wait for them to chime in.

[Wauplin]

Interesting! I'll let you know if/when we move forward with an API for papers comments 👍