I got blocked two weeks ago when I was playing with creating a "realtime" view of comments so you didn't have to refresh the page. To test I had it polling one

I got blocked two weeks ago when I was playing with creating a "realtime" view of comments so you didn't have to refresh the page. To test I had it polling one story every five seconds and I think I left it running overnight. (Sorry about that.) Next day, no HN, so I spent the next week browsing HN on Firefox with a proxy setup through an EC2 instance. Thankfully, my IP changed or the ban is gone. For what I was doing the HNSearch API wouldn't have helped, but if there was an API like the one at ihackernews.com that's running and live, that'd be great.