Ask HN: WordPress plugins to submit new posts to HN automatically?

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Hi guys I was looking for a plugin to publish my essays and blog posts directly to HN. I know that HN does not have an API, therefore I played a little bit with scraping requests etc and just got banned (emailed @pg about it).

Anyway, is there a proven to be working WordPress plugin to get articles posted to HN automatically? Or would someone be interested in developing one?

Thanks.

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There's a reason there isn't an api or plugin for auto submission. Think about it.

Well abusers actually get banned very quickly. So if anyone might abuse, this will be discouraging. However I have an ifttt recipe that does some post-publishing hooks and makes life easier. I am not sure it is purely an evil idea.

This sounds like just what HN needs. Sites shouldn't have to rely on manual spam or the goodwill of auto-submitters like iProject and evo_9 to get their precious content spammed on HN anymore, it's 2012!

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