Ask HN: Does the Hacker News API have auth documentation?

Posted by murph37 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:48PM
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I created a Hacker News iOS app using the Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API). I'd really like to add login, commenting, upvoting, etc. but I haven't found any great documentation. Is there any resource or project available that outlines the undocumented endpoints of the Hacker News API?

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Re:Ask HN: Does the Hacker News API have auth documentation? by zzo38computer on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @09:44PM (#24127834)

Yes, another problem I think with the API is that it returns HTML code for comments, rather than the raw code that the user entered, which would be better I think; have the client to convert it to whatever format you need instead.

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Re:Ask HN: Does the Hacker News API have auth documentation? by murph37 on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:26PM (#24165362)

Yeah for sure. I've been able to tackle the html comments now just wanting to implement auth. Any recommended resources?

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Re:Ask HN: Does the Hacker News API have auth documentation? by krapp on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:37PM (#24165692)

Email the mods. I'm 99.9% certain there is no auth API, though.

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