Ask HN: HN APIs (or lack thereof)

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I looked to see if this was asked before, but could not find anything. Are there any plans to implement APIs on HN for logins, votes, comments, etc.? Each application I use (iOS) constantly breaks, because they all scrape HN.

If this has been asked and answered before, please point me to the right direction. Thanks!

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As far as I know, HN offers an official API here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

But it specifically says "We hope to improve it over time, and may later enable access to private per-user data using OAuth." So I'm assuming that login, votes, comments, submission is for a future release of the API. That might be why the apps you use resort to scraping HN.

For reference, here's the blog post talking about the release of the API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

Thank you!

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