Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API?

Posted by ilolu on Saturday September 03, 2016 @10:31AM
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Is there a Write API in works ?.

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API? by frankwiles on Saturday September 03, 2016 @10:56AM (#12419412)

I doubt it. Easily 10X the amount of spam and low quality posts HN would have to deal with.

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API? by gruez on Saturday September 03, 2016 @01:55PM (#12420229)

What makes you think that getting a write api will significantly increase spam? I don't think the current system of submitting a HTML form (essentially a POST) is a high barrier to begin with.

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API? by mtmail on Saturday September 03, 2016 @10:48AM (#12419390)

Try [email protected] if nobody publicly answers.

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API? by gtirloni on Saturday September 03, 2016 @06:02PM (#12421446)

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

[email protected]

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the Status of the Hacker News Write API? by tedmiston on Saturday September 03, 2016 @06:29PM (#12421561)

I've emailed Scott a few times about HN bugs and he's very responsive. I'm curious to hear what he says.

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