Having 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 thi

Having 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”.