10 Clickbaits you can't resist

Question

Write a program/function/script that takes a natural number i from 1 to 10 as input and outputs the URL of the Question with the i th hottest question on the Code Golf Portal

The ordering should be like in https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/?tab=hot. For example:
input 1
output https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/127047/the-spain-license-plates-game
(at the point of this edit)

There are no strong restrictions to the output, as long as the url can be reasonably retrieved. Valid outputs include strings, console printing etc.

It's Code Golf, so shortest code in Bytes wins.

Notes

If your program automatically opens a browser with the webpage, it counts as valid output and is totally cool.

If your program does not retrieve the ranking from current information (i.e. hardcoding the links), it is not valid.

The contest ends with the end of June.

As questioned: The indexing must be 1 based, ie: the input 1 must return the the first site of the hottest questions.

Comment

I hope this question is not too clickbaity, as the stack exchange editor program was mocking me for the title. Originally I planned this challenge with Youtube trends, where it would haven been more fitting.

Answer 1

PowerShell v5, 83 Bytes

(irm api.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot`&site=codegolf).Items["$args"-1].Link

irm is short for Invoke-RestMethod which auto-parses the Json, makes life quite easy.

add four bytes (saps for start-process) for version which opens in browser.

saps(irm api.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot`&site=codegolf).Items["$args"-1].Link

Answer 2

Python + requests, 128 bytes

from requests import*
lambda n:get('http://api.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot&site=codegolf').json()['items'][n-1]['link']

Answer 3

Mathematica, 125 bytes

b="http://codegolf.stackexchange.com";b<>"/q/"<>StringCases[Import[b<>"?tab=hot","Text"],"ns/"~~a:DigitCharacter..:>a][[3#]]&

Anonymous function. Takes no input and returns a string as output. Was going to use the XML feed, but it seems to follow a different ordering than on the page.

Answer 4

Python 3, 221 bytes

from urllib.request import*
import zlib, json
lambda n:json.loads(zlib.decompress(urlopen('http://api.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot&site=codegolf').read(),16+zlib.MAX_WBITS),encoding='utf-8')['items'][n-1]['link']

Based off of ovs answer. Also, thanks to Oluwafemi Sule for helping me with an issue I had.

Answer 5

Python 2.7, 195 bytes

from urllib import*
import zlib, json
lambda n:json.loads(zlib.decompress(urlopen('http://api.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot&site=codegolf').read(),16+zlib.MAX_WBITS))['items'][n-1]['link']

This is same answer by Dair, but using Python 2

Answer 6

Stratos, 28 bytes

"-1"+
f"¹⁵s²&sort=hot"r"⁷s"@

Explanation:

"-1"+                    Decrement the input, and store it.
f"¹⁵s²&sort=hot"         Fetch the contents of the URL api.stackexchange.com/questions?site=codegolf&sort=hot.
                r"⁷s"    Get the array named "items"
                     @   Get the nth element, where n is retrieved from storage.

Try it!

Answer 7

JavaScript (ES6), 106 bytes

Returns a Promise containing the JSON object for the desired question, which includes the link.

n=>fetch`//api.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot&site=codegolf`.then(r=>r.json()).then(j=>j.items[--n])

• Sacrificed 2 bytes allowing for 1-indexing.

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Try it

f=
n=>fetch`//api.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot&site=codegolf`.then(r=>r.json()).then(j=>j.items[--n])
oninput=_=>f(+i.value).then(console.log)
f(i.value=1).then(console.log)

<input id=i type=number>