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Can you allow login and write operation via the API?

I want to build a HN web client but it's not possible without scrapping the site which won't scale.

Im typing this from the iOS app HACK which somehow allows for writing comments and upvoting etc.

They have to scrape the site in the background to work. While this is doable, any such client will need to follow the HN bot policy which limits the scrapping speed.

Another issue is browser only client. If HN has set proper cors (I didn't check if it is the case), then you cannot build a web client through scrapping without proxy.

Probably not in the first release, but hopefully after that.

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