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I didn't play with the HN API but I wonder if it's possible to post comments using the API. I haven't seen any program support user comments, it would be neat t
by atmosx 12y ago
I didn't play with the HN API but I wonder if it's possible to post comments using the API. I haven't seen any program support user comments, it would be neat to be able to post comments using vim :-)
- tomphoolery 12y agoDo you think they deliberately don't make that functionality part of the public API just so people won't create bots?
- xur17 12y agoI doubt it. It wouldn't take very long at all to write a simple bot to do that with the existing web interface.
- atmosx 12y agoNo, it's not that. I don't know why they don't allow comments via the official API. Maybe @dang would be kind enough to let us know if we'll ever be able to use the API to post AUTH and post comments.
- ryanss 12y agoHi, plugin author here. It's not currently possible to post comments using the official API (or any of the unofficial APIs), but this probably wouldn't be difficult to implement using a standard POST request to the actual Hacker News web server. The harder part would be getting the interface for posting comments inside of Vim user friendly; it would probably be similar to how fugitive.vim lets you enter git commit messages. I will definitely look into adding this to the plugin if enough interest is shown.
- davis 12y agoThat'd be awesome. Opening up a scratch buffer and then using that for the contents of the comment in the POST would work pretty well. I dig it.
- habosa 12y agoI implemented ajax comment posting for the HNES Chrome Extension, which is open source. It's a dirty hack but it works. Check out the source: https://github.com/etcet/hnes https://github.com/etcet/hnes