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Most 3rd apps use the Hackernews API https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/HackerNews
by mtmail 5y ago
Most 3rd apps use the Hackernews API https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- Uehreka 5y agoHaving tried to write an HN client myself, I can assure you most of them scrape instead of using the API. The API is basically read only, is impractical for things like loading a full tree of comments (get ready to make an API call for every comment) and you need to scrape if you want things like “what auth hash do I need in order to upvote this particular comment via POST”.